What laptop do you all have ERA? Do you a Mac? Win10 machine? Maybe a Chromebook? What brand? Do you like your current laptop or do you wish you had something else?
What laptop do you have ERA?
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Does a Surface count? I have a Surface Pro 4 i5 4GB base model that I use for some light scripting work and watching anime on. It's pretty solid. I kinda wish I had a gaming laptop just to take back and forth between work but that's a "man if I were stupid rich I'd buy one and do that" kinda thing.
I've still got my ThinkPad x61s. It runs OpenBSD most of the time, but I also have Debian and Windows 10 installed.
My personal laptop is a 2016 Macbook, the super-thin kind with one port - looks like this:
I got it for the portability and travel about three years ago. I still like it, mostly, but I'm not crazy about the keyboard. The scissor keys have very little travel - the newer MacBooks have the same mechanism but are more comfortable to use.
My work laptop is a 2017 MacBook Air, which is still a great laptop but the screen is too low resolution. I did have a 2015 Macbook pro, which probably was the best laptop I've used.
I got it for the portability and travel about three years ago. I still like it, mostly, but I'm not crazy about the keyboard. The scissor keys have very little travel - the newer MacBooks have the same mechanism but are more comfortable to use.
My work laptop is a 2017 MacBook Air, which is still a great laptop but the screen is too low resolution. I did have a 2015 Macbook pro, which probably was the best laptop I've used.
2018 Dell XPS 13 9370. I've had it since May and it's been a gamechanger for me in terms of laptop usage.
And lose Windows Hello? Honestly not worth it imo.
And lose Windows Hello? Honestly not worth it imo.
Personal: 2017 15" MacBook Pro
Work: 15" Surface Book 2 and Surface Go
Travel: 11" iPad Pro
My wife has a Surface Pro 4 that's almost always docked at her desk.
Work: 15" Surface Book 2 and Surface Go
Travel: 11" iPad Pro
My wife has a Surface Pro 4 that's almost always docked at her desk.
It's the Alienware 13 r3. I have had it for 2 years and I still love it. Awesome battery life, amazing gaming performance, build quality second to none and great keyboard. The only issue is that it's a bit heavy. If it was a pound lighter I would have 100% satisfied.
Toshiba Satellite with a Celeron CPU and Xubuntu 18.04.
I wouldn't recommend it to anybody who's not going to run a lightweight Linux distribution on it, but I personally have been more than satisfied with it. It only cost me $180 too.
I wouldn't recommend it to anybody who's not going to run a lightweight Linux distribution on it, but I personally have been more than satisfied with it. It only cost me $180 too.
Hobby/personal use: 13" 2018 MacBook Pro.
Work: IBM ThinkPad P50.
If I could do it legally and easily, though, I'd rather have the P50 (or a newer model) with macOS installed.
Work: IBM ThinkPad P50.
If I could do it legally and easily, though, I'd rather have the P50 (or a newer model) with macOS installed.
My daily is a Lenovo Ideapad 720s Ryzen 7.
It runs my design software pretty well. Gaming is for my desktop and consoles.
It runs my design software pretty well. Gaming is for my desktop and consoles.
A ~2 year old Macbook Pro, unfortunately one of the ones with a bum keyboard. I hate it, really disappointed in Apple computers now compared to what they used to be.
Dell Inspiron 7559 (2016)
Got an i7-6700HQ and a GTX960M so I can get down on quite a bit of gaming on this when I travel.
Also have a Surface Pro 4 for extra mobility when working at client sites
Got an i7-6700HQ and a GTX960M so I can get down on quite a bit of gaming on this when I travel.
Also have a Surface Pro 4 for extra mobility when working at client sites
Have last year's macbook pro, whatever that one was. 2017 model? Love it. Finally took the plunge to all-apple (Desktop/ipad/laptop/phone/my soul etc...) so I am assimilated. Sorry, everybody.
I also have an old HP Envy I use to run my media server/Plex but I'm thinking of ditching it and buying some cheap solid state chromebook or something that can do it. It's old and that fan can get a little loud if I run more than one application (this is after I stripped it down, so yeah...).
I also have an old HP Envy I use to run my media server/Plex but I'm thinking of ditching it and buying some cheap solid state chromebook or something that can do it. It's old and that fan can get a little loud if I run more than one application (this is after I stripped it down, so yeah...).
Transition from MBPs to Thinkpad's X1 line. I have an older 2017 model but the one announced at CES with carbon fiber patterns looks sexy as hell.
Also the 12" Macbook.
Everything is so streamlined. Its the perfect computer (except for gaming.)
Everything is so streamlined. Its the perfect computer (except for gaming.)
I mainly use a desktop, but have an Acer Predator Helios 300 that doesn't get used anywhere near as much as it should. Picked it up after selling off my Surface Pro 4, which also wasn't getting used much. Mainly break it out when traveling somewhere for a little while or if I want to game in the living room.
I do a most of my "laptop" gaming on my GPD Win 2.
Also have an older Lenovo Thinkpad for work. Can't remember the model number. Not technically mine though.
I do a most of my "laptop" gaming on my GPD Win 2.
Also have an older Lenovo Thinkpad for work. Can't remember the model number. Not technically mine though.
A G74SX that's starting to show its age. It still works well, it's just that everything that stuff plugs into (i.e., the power and USB ports) isn't in the shape it used to be.
It's good enough still for the sorts of games I want to play these days, I guess, which is less of the stuff coming out right now (my main gaming setup is the Switch, actually)
It's good enough still for the sorts of games I want to play these days, I guess, which is less of the stuff coming out right now (my main gaming setup is the Switch, actually)
Budget Dell Gaming laptop from 2016. Holding decently except the fact that the chassis is almost cracked ( cheap plastic construction), the battery has like 50% of original capacity ( to be expected), it frequently overheats ( despite me opening it up and cleaning) and I've had to replace a lot of components. Overall, I guess I did ok for $800 usd 2.5 years ago.