Hi all, Merry Christmas
Im looking to get a new laptop. linux to run, Safe Ai, work/ personal use & games (if possible). I have a budget of roughly $2500 aud. What should i be looking for to work with my brax phone. What should i rule out for maintaining privacy? id like to be able to run a triple screen set up as one small screen dose not work for me. Any opinions on Lenovo yoga or recommendation’s?
Merry Christmas !!! First watch Rob’s videos on this topic and then research for the special features you want.
Great question, I want to know also 
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thank you, this is helpful
Thank you, apologies for the late reply. i watched this and have learned to avoid snapdragon. looking online i keep seeing stuff im not familiar with but dont understand what to ask to know if its dodgy or not from a privacy perspective. Lenovo Legion 5i Pro 16" WQXGA 165Hz Gaming Laptop (12th Gen Intel i7) [GeForce RTX 3070Ti] for example. i dont know how to tell if its a good option. i have a better idea now than i did before, but would appreciate the guidance of those smarter than i in this area.
The video mentioned new stuff coming in 2025. Have recent releases of tech expanded options or is it stick to pre 2014 products.
I don’t know, I’m still on 4th generation machines, I use computers only for browsing and minimal other tasks, I can even run Android Studio
Rob has recommended used Lenovo Thnkpads. We took that advice and purchased a mint-condition machine for our daughter. Lots of memory and storage. $300. Installed Mint Cinnamon. She couldn’t be happier.
In fact technology has halt and they just add more and more features as ASICs in the CPU in order to unload the threads themselves, for example having encryption done on hardware is very useful.
For office work anything with 8GB of RAM is more than enough. In the 1990s and early 2000s it would be unimaginable using a 10-15 years old machine as a daily driver.
Happyfeet2 - Were you able to find a suitable laptop?
Im still looking. Thanks for asking. Im leaning to wards a Lenovo Leigon 5 but am also interested in the yoga as it would be good to draw directly on screen, but i dont know if it will be linux compatible. Im considering running Bazzite as the OS.
Any body know a bout running Linux on a touch screen like lenovo yoga range? and will it work for multiple screens for multi tasking?
Thank you to everyone who has helped guide my learning process thus far too. It has been really helpful.
Don’t know if you are still looking but I am waiting for the new Lenovo releases this year. The first reason is that many of the new releases will support Linux out of the box. Second is that for the laptop I am looking at, the X1 2 in 1 gen 11 has been redesigned to be repairable. You can easily replace components like the USB / Thunderbolt ports, speakers, keyboard, etc. There are youtube videos on this topic.
The downside is that the newer laptops are likely to be more expensive.
Thanks for sharing that. illl check it out. I got a lenovo for under $300. Im finding it a bit slow to respond at times but otherwise enjoying the experience so far. Feeling im gona need something better soon. Hopefully their not too expensive fingers crossed.
What laptop did you get? How much RAM do you have? Are you running with a hard drive or SSD? I am running Linux Mint on a T530 with 16 GB RAM and a T580 with 32 GB RAM, both have an SSD. The response time is quite fast.
i got a 7th gen Lenovo x1 carbon. i dont know the Ram but i think its 16GB. Running Ubuntu.
Look at the system monitor or use some command in the terminal like free and top.
The system monitor and top are indispensable tools for monitoring the activity and the RAM usage especially when the system appears to be unresponsive or you have doubts about the activity of an application.
There you can also see the swap file or partition in case you are using one.