I have had a new laptop for a day, and it's shit-hot!
Clearly aimed at gamers but the best spec I could find for development.
I went #Lenovo#Legion9 (max), rather than #Dell for the first time because the spec, and the fact my last Dell is faulty after 6 years (whereas my previous 15yr Dell is still perfect).
Lenovo support is poor, outsourced, unhelpful and knows less than I do.
Windows 11 was the only option, so no Ubuntu drivers. But ok, except the trackpad so far, USB devices on order.
@happyborg Refurbed & tested (& with a warranty) ex-road-warrior Thinkpad x390 or t490 for less than £300 each for me :)
4c8t 8th gen i5, 16Gb RAM, 1080p screen, tough shell, rugged hinges... Windows 10 or 11 (your choice) and I'll then dual boot it with Gentoo anyway like all my previous Thinkpads
@schmerg
Yes, refurbs can be excellent value if they meet your needs/wants.
I still have an working ThinkPad T41 refurb that I put Bodhi Linux on.
The #Windows11 setup yesterday shows me everything I've heard and abhorred about #Windows lately. Even after configuring for #privacy#Edge was sending all my clicks home and making this shit-hot laptop sluggish!
Pretty shocking actually. Enter Firefox and Brave [phew].
@happyborg Yeah, saw your messages on that, even Win10 is heading that way and miraculously decides it should enables new features on updates even when they're just re-categorising existing disabled settings etc https://github.com/n1snt/Windows-Debloater type things can help, as can Chocolatey and Classic Shell (now OpenShell)
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