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 No.14338

I'm looking for a new laptop since my ideapad 330 has a shit build quality and soldered ram. I don't need to upgrade just yet, but my keyboard is falling apart, the wifi card barely works, and this thing is kinda underpowered for a lot of tasks tbh. I want something with a better build quality, that i can use for a bit of gayman and video editing. I thought I could just get a thinkpad with an egpu but gpus are expensive as fuck and /g/ told me thinkpads are a reddit meme nowadays. Anybody got any ideas?

 No.14339

idk but i bought a new lenovo a year ago for $800. technically fine. hinges busted off about 8 months later, cracked the screen, unusable. power button also failing separately. tried to claim the warranty for damage (i wasn't rough, it's their shoddy materials that caused this) and was denied, even after asking if this would be under warranty.

never going to buy a lenovo in my life after this assfucking.

 No.14340

>>14339
How do porkies fucking get away with that? My case isn't as bad as this, but I'm not sure if I can use this thing at college without frustration. For one, part of the keyboard doesn't work (the numpad area, the alts, and print screen are all busted) and the h key as well as the down arrow are constantly falling off. I would at least have to replace the keyboard to make this thing usable, but then there's the issue of RAM and the wifi card too. I've been using it for 3 years at this point, so I don't know when it's gonna break down completely.

 No.14341

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>>14339
Mm, i've had an ideapad for two years now, and never had any notable issue with it. Now i'm scared.

 No.14342

>>14339
Sounds like you bought cheap plastic shit meant to be disposable.
You're supposed to buy used ENTERPRISE QUALITY laptops (i.e. thinkpads).

 No.14343

I got a lenovo ideapad 4 years ago for <$200 and apart from its buggy emmc, whose drivers on OpenBSD/NetBSD don't work, it's fine. I t used to run the modern web, so I had to replace the battery after 2 years.

 No.14521

broke ass uygha

 No.14529

>>14521
correct
btw i've ended up deciding on a thinkpad p51 because specs + not yet shit build quality. i can't believe i was about to fall for /g/ schizo shenanigans

 No.14538

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There are Gigabyte G5 laptops with discrete GPUs on amazon, I have one I bought for $890 or so, they're fine and I can play all games at medium-high settings, but the battery life is dogshit (but its ok because only normalfaggots use their laptops outside), that's the only bad thing about it though, everything else is fina and Im happy with it.

eGPUs are a massive scam, the kind of shit /pol/ talks about when they meme about jewish tricks.

Thinkpads are overpriced memes too.

 No.14962

One of USB ports are beginning to show signs of bad contact (not working plugged in, however you people call it). And though there still other two ports, i wonder if there's anyway to fix this in the eventual scenario of them all going to shit?

 No.14964

>>14962
i hope you know how to solder

 No.15177

What line of laptop should I get if my basic requirements are to be somewhat forward-compatible with special distros like QubesOS and preferably be made by a chinese company, but not to be insanely overpriced?
>QubesOS Recommended System Requirements:
https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/system-requirements/
>QubesOS Hardware compatibility list (HCL):
https://www.qubes-os.org/hcl/#hardware-laptops
And why the hell doesn't the checkboxes go predictably more green with more recent Lenovo models? That's what you'd reasonably expect, yet, it seems completely random. Anyone familiar with the technical details to explain this? This is also what makes it so hard to decide what I'm going to buy, as the very few ones with all green checkboxes are made by petty bourg hobbyists specifically to meet the reqs and hover around the lofty sum of over 1500 fucking euro.

 No.15194

>>15177
>This is also what makes it so hard to decide what I'm going to buy, as the very few ones with all green checkboxes are made by petty bourg hobbyists specifically to meet the reqs and hover around the lofty sum of over 1500 fucking euro.
It's a low volume product that normies don't care about and the people who need them will pay the money. I know it's frustrating because this should be the default and backdoored hardware be the exception.

 No.15225

Librebooted thinkpad or die.

 No.15236

>>15225
i'm not going to use an x40 or t400 or whatever in 2022

 No.15239

pay a chinese to mod an old thinkpad. got my modded x230 from xyte.ch for maybe 500 eur and its pretty comfy. if you need to do gaymen and especially video editing don't skimp on the CPU

 No.15240

>>14962
This happened to my T480s, the regular usb c seemed to be shittily designed to the point where the charging cable ended up bending one of the cables or something. I ended up just using the thunderbolt port which seems to be much better. I also missed my opportunity to send it in because I was using it for school and stuff and forgot to buy the extended warranty to get it fixed, so I've just been using the thunderbolt port for a few years now.

 No.15241

>>15240
usb-c breaks so easily i have to wonder why idiots bother modding their old thinkpads to solder a usb-c port in place of the original power jack god damn

 No.15264

>>15177
is qubes actually secure or is it a scam?

 No.15266

>>15264
It takes time to learn how to use it properly. Nothing is perfect, but Qubes is pretty good. I've used it for years.

 No.15295

>>15264
there are always security issues coming up, but generally it's so niche, and there's so many layers of shit that would have to be bypassed to get a successful exploit, especially if you use good hygiene within qubes (which is also necessary), that it's much less of a chance than any other operating system

but one thing i will say is it's fucking finnicky. The worst part is that sometimes something breaks or doesnt work as expected randomly, and i mean usually it's fixable but i did have to re-install one time and i never figured out why. It's also common to get corrupted (somehow? idk. some ppl had similar issues and the problem was the ability of the VM to make graphics? its fixable with knowledge) template vms by installing the wrong shit (calibre on debian, maybe whonix, lol).

I love it though, its super nice, it feels safe, it makes some things very easy (like having whonix vms is super cool), and i look forward to being forced to learn more i guess? Like SALT.
If you want totally stable and pretty secure, i'd go with a very minimal distro like void, and then do whatever security tweaking you'd usually do on linux. Qubes is less stable, has more moving parts, but it's honestly also pretty luxurious so i feel spoiled compared to a sparse, focused OS. It's way more n00b friendly as well, once you get past the first week and redo the install a couple times, and get you de/wm situation how you like it. It's pretty slick with i3. If someone just set me up a qubes computer and told me how to use it, it'd be way easier and nicer/cleaner than the average linux experience (even tho it's all linux still, lol). I'd definitely look into using it for a enterprise/org situation.

Protip: it eats battery super fast, so consider if you want a mobile situation or if you're gonna be plugged in.

 No.15955

>Best laptop under 1000$
none of them
save up and get a razer or smthn like that with good linux support
https://openrazer.github.io/

 No.15957

>>15955
holy shit do not buy expensive mediocre hardware just because they've got "open" drivers goddamn

 No.15958

>>15957
>mediocre hardware
not really
they're generally up there with lenovo or dell or whatever

 No.15959

>>15958
gamer shit is always more expensive and worse quality than enterprise shit

 No.15974

Macbook Pro bought from the back of a van.

 No.16829



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