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Best place for laptops for development?
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Everyone always says Thinkpads, which is what I might look at. :)
After Superfish I'd NEVER trust Lenovo.
I have a Lenovo I never use because they placed the right shift key and the up arrow key stupidly. As I am typing if I want to capitalize a letter using the right shift key my finger gets the up-arrow key most of the time, I don't see this for several keystrokes, leading to having to correct the issue. It's very annoying. It is a nice i7 machine otherwise.
Uhh, get a keyboard?
I have used the machine with a keyboard, but it is a laptop - meant to go places away from a fixed installation. I have an Asus Vivobook with a sane keyboard.
Super glue a small keyboard to it, lol
I bought a ThinkPad Z13 Gen 1 last year (with 32GB RAM) and it's been excellent for hobby dev work and light gaming. Lenovo officially list Linux as one of the supported operating systems. I run Fedora on it and everything worked out of the box. If it's not urgent, I'd recommend waiting for the Gen 2 which should come out next month. Gen 2 features the AMD Zen 4 CPUs, which is a decent upgrade from the Zen 3+ CPU in the Gen 1.
Thanks! I'm not in a hurry so I might wait!