Wow! This is a highly personal question that really depends on your use cases.
But for a point of comparison, my use cases tend to be bimodal. That is, my compute needs are either very light ( email, browsing, text editing ) or very heavy ( analysis of scores of TB ) with very little in between. So, for the light compute needs, I use a Chromebook with the Linux VM enabled ( Debian 11 ) running Docker ( every other distro ) For the heavy, I use the cloud ( AWS, GCP, Azure, Digital Ocean, etc. ) and connect to them using specific environments I create within Docker ( e.g. AWS CLI ). Hope that's helpful. And let us know how things go for you. Regards, - Robert On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 9:33 AM Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > I think it's time to replace my Dell Latitude E5410 since it's giving me > fits installing Slackware64-15.0. It's run Slackware since about 2010, > upgraded as new releases became available, but now it has major issues with > the new release and a full, clean installation. (My Lenovo ThinkPad X200 > has > no issues with 15.0 but is too limited as a portable work station.) > > I'm looking at Dell and Lenovo ThinkPads, 13"-14" screens preferred, but I > accept that 15"+ are now the most common. I also want to spend as little as > necessary to get a reliable laptop that will last like the Dell and X200 > have. > > Recommendations and suggestions solicited. > > Rich >
