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Laptop recommendations (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 months ago by emergencyfood to c/[email protected]

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Low hanging fruit, but whatever. It is what it is.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

my recommendation: a second-hand, 16 year old acer aspire one that runs windows xp, ms-dos and the 32bit version of puppylinux...if it works it works. (yeah its just my setup)

been working flawlessly on original hardware since 2008

i even play games and make music on that thing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I got some used chromebooks on Ebay for $40 each (3855u, 4gb ram, 32gb ssd), I would recommend them if you don't have any money to spend on a laptop. It's not going to be running anything super demanding, but its shocking how much it can do.

Some things I have run on it and had a decent experience: Blender, FreeCAD, Portal, TMNF through proton, Celeste, Minecraft Java, MuseScore

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

Lol ok enjoy your lenovobios and being trapped on x86 forever

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What's wrong with x86 all of a sudden?

ARM is still pretty damn experimental compared to x86.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Bullshit mostly. x86 is fine & has been getting a lot more power efficient (if you can get a work day’s worth of power, you have met the benchmark). Wake me up when RISC-V is here.