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by shmerl 179 days ago
Never used MacBooks, but Lenovo Thinkpad laptops with Linux are really good in my experience. Get anything recent with AMD.
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cromka 178 days ago
The best recent experience is arguably with current Intel chips, actually, because of the battery usage that can reach 20 hours, easily matching Macbooks: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-empire-strikes-back-with...

Performance is still very high so if they don't need the current top tier AMD horsepower, Intel is the way to go. It's also quieter, cooler and doesn't throttle. Not to mention the ability to use SRIOV GPU for running Windows software in a VM.

Also, Lenovo tends to limit HiDPI displays to Intel CPUs, for some ekhm unknown reason.

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shmerl 178 days ago
With current situation in Intel (lot's of Linux developers leaving), I'd stick to AMD anyway.
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cromka 178 days ago
That's fair, actually. Didn't consider that.
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cromka 177 days ago
... but then again:

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Panther-Lake-NPU-Firmwar...

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shmerl 177 days ago
They aren't completely backing out, but I suspect their support levels will get worse.
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