Laptop Computers

slippery said:

I'm thinking about buying an inexpensive Thin and Light for shit like Word/Excel and minor web browsing. Something that doesn't feel cheap and won't just frustrate the shit out of me. Any recommendations?

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LG Gram 17 13th Gen can be found used as low as $700(on ebay) which is ridiculous - I had the 17 and then moved to the OLED Style -


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Has anyone used a Lenovo 9i dual screen? It seems like the new Asus Duo is going to be a better value but it's not readily available right now.

My Dell precision is getting too cumbersome for travelling, and I'm considering switching to the new M3 macbook. Mainly office work with quite a lot of adobe shit. the price is absolutely crazy for this though, so I've been very hesitant. I've read that the Surface is ok but the battery gets drained super fast when you're doing some serious work, plus it's quite noisy. Is anyone having the same struggle ?

Anyone have thoughts on the new Windows on Arm laptops that are coming out? One of my main reasons for switching to a Macbook Pro was for the usable battery life. It is annoying to have to run a VM for Windows through Parallels for things like emulator coding for old windows games, and then also having to run crossover to play live EQ.
My main worry is the Adreno GPUs on the Snapdragon X Elite chips. I know it won't have an issue running EQ, and probably not running the Vanguard Client, but I worry about it doing anything in Unreal Engine 5.
There is also no guarantee Qualcomm will get eGPU support, so it may just be a smarter idea to get something like a Zephyrus G16 with the 4080 as I am hearing reports of regular productivity workflow battery life being in the 9-10 hour range which is pretty good. I'm happy to use a laptop plugged in for playing games or tinkering in Unreal, but I don't want a laptop to struggle to get 3-4 hours off charge for web browsing and word processing.

WIndows on Arm...Yeah or Nay for general productivity with bursts of software dev?

Edit: If I was going to get windows on arm, I would probably get the 64GB Surface Laptop 15 coming out in mid June.