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Late last year, the #Dell laptop (Inspiron 15 5405) I bought, broke. I had gotten it very cheap second hand (£250) and it was the best CPU I've ever had (#AMD Ryzen 5 4500U) attached to the worst chassis man has ever made; I can only describe the computer as having been designed by people who never used it, or even saw one assembled. The metal hinge bracket smashed the display due to the flimsy plastic screen housing. The second M.2 slot is physically unusable(!) because the speaker molding is too close for even the smallest M.2 board (2230?)

I've been limited to a netbook for the last few months and it's been hard work. 1GHz + 4GB RAM is hell when you're trying to do anything creative and switching to Linux in the process.

I've just ordered a new laptop, this time a Thinkpad T14s Ryzen 7 Pro 4750U / 16GB RAM. I would have been overjoyed just to stick with another 4500U as all my previous laptops were #Intel and performance was just utterly miserable, especially with games and I say that as someone who only plays games older than 2010!

The moral of this story is never buy a Dell, no matter how good the price!

Habe soeben meinem guten alten #DELL #Latitude E6230 (Bj. 2012) wieder mal aktualisiert.
Ich habe schon seit Erscheinen #Sparky #Linux V8 (Debian Trixie, semirolling) ohne jegliche Probleme auf dem alten Hündchen laufen.
Okay, Prozessorgrafik, nur für Büro, Medien, Kommunikation und Shisen Sho in Gebrauch.
(freue mich schon auf die nächste #Debian #Beta)
Heute habe ich ihm auch den #Kernel 6.14.2 spendiert.
Läuft stabil.
Man gönnt sich ja sonst nix.
😉

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But those are relatively small players in the PC space. What about bigger […]

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My #Dell is only a couple months away from no longer being able to extend my warranty for it (I bought it back in 2020). So, I thought, "I wonder if #System76 is finally offering workstation-replacement laptops with OLED screens". Went to check their site. And, while it seems like they might have higher-capability graphics options, it also seems like they only offer the better graphics on 17" laptops. I really prefer a minimal-bezel 15" range laptop. So, looking like System76 is still a non-option.

While I was
there, however, I did notice that they seem to be designing some of their actual desktop workstations to evoke the old NeXTStation cubes

Also a bit bummed to see that they have Instagram and Twitter accounts, but no Mastodon. Really seems odd that a maker of Linux hardware would only have presence on legacy social media and not Fedi.

I am disappoint.

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