500$ - 700$ Freedos Laptop Recommendation
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Hello again!
I think I've decided to buy my new laptop now. In my last post, I decided the brands I wanted to buy based on your suggestions: HP, Lenovo, Asus and Acer. If you have time, could you take a look at the options I have chosen for each brand and share your thoughts? After deciding on one option for each brand, I will try to determine the best of the four options. Or if you tell me which one you think is the best among all these options, I would be happy. Thanks for your time.
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@Aaron ThinkPad is Lenovo.
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For some reason, I always think of HP. Maybe it's because I've been using HP for 13 years.
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@Pardus I tend to keep buying HP machines because, for my purposes I keep finding I can get the best value/specs for the price with HP. They have their drawbacks here and there, but I can't seem to find what I want for the price with other brands.
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There were many options so I've decided on two brands, good or bad. I reduced the number of brands. Which one? If you don't tell me I won't be able to decide on my own. Thanks.
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@Pardus You got mixed advice here. If you want to run Linux, the latest hardware might not work as expected, if at all. It depends on the distribution you want to use and which version of the Kernel it runs. The latest hardware might not be supported at all, or bug out, even on the newest Kernel. Moreover especially when considering laptops some hardware might not work at all. Read up on Wifi cards and their support on Linux. Be careful with graphic cards, you could run into an awful lot of issues, AMD is preferable to Nvidia on Linux. Since you don’t want to play games, you could avoid a dedicated graphics card and find something with inbuilt graphics.
Write down all specs of the laptops you consider for purchase and check for support. The better your hardware is supported, the less time you have to invest later troubleshooting and finding workarounds.
You can find hardware support pages for Linux on the net, here is an example for Ubuntu ☛ https://ubuntu.com/certified/laptops
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Hi. I found this laptop. Discounted. What do you think? I always thought of Ryzen 7 but...
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@Pardus
Looks very good, The CPU is one year old, plenty of RAM and a fast SSD.
The GTX 3050 is a bit older, perfect for all office/web work and you can play even games with is.
I had never issues with Nvidia cards on Linux, using them since many years up to GTX 2060.Cheers, mib
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Thank you all for your help and suggestions, friends. I finally bought the laptop I mentioned last: Lenovo LOQ 15ARP9 R5 7235HS 24GB DDR5 RTX 3050 6GB GDDR6 512GB M.2 SSD 15.6" FHD 144Hz G-SYNC FreeDos Gaming Notebook
I hope I will be happy with this laptop. I am currently preparing an ubuntu usb. I hope there won't be any problems with the installation and I can get the laptop thing done.
