thinking of buying a new laptop

[Metario]

so it's my birthday soon (saturday) and i have enough dosh to buy a new laptop with a max of 2500$
im considering a new MacBook Pro because it's good for my needs (I do heavy-to-light coding, C++, Python, Golang, etc) and it's a worthwhile investment that's futureproofed but there's also a few others that I was considering like the Thinkpad T560 because of my /g/ memes
advice?

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[Punished Toxicology]

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[Metario]

anything that you can write blhack with

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[cooolguy32]

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just ignore him, he is just trying to be funny and start drama.

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not unlikely

[ßlöükfáce]

anything you want in particular? storage, physical size, usb ports, stuff like that?

[IdeTheBird]

just ignore him, he is just trying to be funny and start drama.

Yeah thot patrol likes to start massive stuff but I mean he's not wrong behind his statement.

[Insert Name Here²]

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[Operator¹]

With that budget, you could probably get a decent desktop rig and an average/decent windows laptop

[Metario]

With that budget, you could probably get a decent desktop rig and an average/decent windows laptop

Already have one. I don't plan to upgrade it any time soon because my Linux install boots up quick enough and my compile times aren't adversely affected.

anything you want in particular? storage, physical size, usb ports, stuff like that?

Storage is a big one. NVMe SSDs are preferred. As long as it's not a giant ass laptop and it's reasonably slim, it'll work for me.
USB ports aren't really a concern.

[Operator¹]

I don't really know about anything at the $2500 price range, but you should see if any of the business offerings are appealing to you. I also suggest taking a look at the Surface Book, but I don't know if you'll like it.

Actually the capacity isn't that great, so unless you're sold on the extra features I wouldn't go with the surface book for your needs.

[Metario]

I don't really know about anything at the $2500 price range, but you should see if any of the business offerings are appealing to you. I also suggest taking a look at the Surface Book, but I don't know if you'll like it.

Actually the capacity isn't that great, so unless you're sold on the extra features I wouldn't go with the surface book for your needs.

Yeah a friend of mine has the surface book and it's nice so maybe. But I get EPP pricing on all apple products, so I'm probably just going to tripleboot macOS, windows and arch

[d]

MacBooks and Surface / Microsoft books are loaded with nonfree software, locked-down hardware, and more than probable spyware included with the software.
Considering you have enough money to spend on a MacBook, maybe these might be something you can fancy:
https://lacpdx.com/gnu/Laptop
Also see here:
https://www.gnu.org/links/companies.html
More than likely, all of the laptops are capable of installing Libreboot if you want that stuff.
If you really can't stand the thickness try one of these:
https://system76.com/laptops
Be forewarned, these contain Intel chips (see: Intel Management Engine) and contain Ubuntu preloaded.

[phflack]

that budget would probably get you a good alienware laptop + graphics amplifier + GPU
but since you already have a desktop then probably wouldn't need it