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thinking of buying a new laptop
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:
--- Quote from: Operator¹ on April 28, 2017, 01:10:50 AM ---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.
--- End quote ---
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