I’m in the market for a new Linux laptop. My current machine is a 2018 i7 with 64GB of RAM, a 4K screen, 1TB of storage, 2x USB-C and 1x USB-A.

I’m looking for something that can match my current specs but brings great battery life, modern Wi-Fi, and a fingerprint reader. I don’t have to have 4K, and may actually prefer lower resolution for the battery savings.

I’d love to hear some recommendations for a machine built within the past 12 months. Thanks in advance for your feedback!

  • @spartanatreyuEnglish
    1•11 months ago

    What are you doing that makes having 64gb ram useful?

    • @[email protected]English
      4•11 months ago

      They already answered this:

      I’m in DevSecOps, and do a lot of heavy development and testing, as well as PoCs. Ideally, I’d have 128GB of RAM but laptops aren’t quite there yet. The HD is a Samsung SSD.

      • @spartanatreyuEnglish
        1•11 months ago

        I can’t see your comment about heavy dev and testing.

        I’m curious about what exactly is chewing up that much RAM. Do you have a ridiculous amount of containers running? Or a big ram disk or something?

        • @[email protected]English
          1•11 months ago

          It’s not my comment. You are talking to the completely wrong person. Go look at their comments.