Recent Laptop experiences sought

[Tom Buskey]

I tend to use my laptop in one place so I don't really use the battery.  I
want chrome, xterminals and ssh to my servers.

I had T61p laptops with 8GB and SSD for a long time until the power
supplies got flakey.
I upgraded to a T420s from ebay ($100ish) plugged the SSD from the T61p and
just kept running.
I like the durability (the T61p was 12 years old!).
All the newer laptops seem to have chiclet type keyboards.  I prefer more
of a real keyboard.

I have a chromebook that can run Linux.  It's a bit slower, has only 4GB
RAM (upper limit for cheap chromebooks), lower resolution and that horrible
keyboard.  The battery life is fantastic though.

On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 2:13 PM Peter Petrakis <peter.petrakis at gmail.com>
wrote:

> You can pickup Thinkpad x220 cheap on ebay with 2/4 core i7 processor and
> max 16G DRAM + SSD for under $250.
> Just picked one up for the wife for $179.
>
> After that I wouldn't bother with anything less than a P50. They can be
> had for under $1K and are absolute
> beasts. Tons of ram capacity, multiple harddrives, nvme, dual gpus,
> suitable for CUDA dev.
>
> https://tinyurl.com/y3keh99t  , Intel i7-6700HQ 2.60GHz 32GB 480GB SSD
> 15.6", buy it now for $760
>
> http://www.notebookreview.com/notebookreview/lenovo-thinkpad-p50-review-workstation-all/
>
> I've been halfway around the world with *business class* Thinkpads and
> they have never failed me.
>
> Peter
>
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 1:17 PM Mark Ellison <ellison at ieee.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi-
>>
>> As appropriate, please respond with your recent laptop experience...
>>
>> I have been using the Lenovo Thinkpad line of laptops with Fedora Linux.
>>
>> Currently, have a short list of laptops- the Lenovo Thinkpad T490 and the
>> HP ProBook, Zbook or Elite with the i7 4-core 8M cache. Screen should be no
>> larger than 14".
>>
>> Some online research turned up 'short battery life' problems with the
>> T490 that seem resolvable with some BIOS tweaks.
>>
>> Any issues, any preferences?  Things to consider pre-sale?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for all your help!
>>
>> Mark Ellison
>>
>>
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