Ask HN: What brand of laptop do you use?

My only functioning laptop right now is a pinebook pro. I only use it to write fiction in bed. It can't really handle more than word processing.

If I play on lichess for example. Every time my opponent makes a move, the entire laptop freezes for a few seconds.

MSI + Linux

Dell. For years, for thousands of laptops at my company. Mostly due to the "Next Business Day Onsite Service". I won't argue that laptops are not all built the same across all brands, but what's make the difference for me, as a corporate customer, is the associated service/warranty. Knowing that I or my colleagues will have their laptop repaired or replaced within 24h is (almost) priceless. We loose more money when a teammate can't work during a day than purchasing the extended warranty. Also, I am a european customer, so my experience may differ with the services offer in US or Canada.

Purism Librem 15 with Qubes OS. Originally designed for Linux, so suspend, WiFi etc. are working flawlessly out of the box.

Framework for the last month or so. Old Thinkpad T460s is still around. Both with NixOS. Framework works fine. On the Thinkpad, fingerprint reader doesn’t work and LTE modem has issues (ModemManager crashes in a loop; not sure what the issue is, and never needed it enough to investigate).

MacBook Pro. Build quality is amazing, but macOS is far far behind Windows.

Apple MacBook Pro M2 + macOS ventura. I also always had a backup xiaomi (a macbook copy essentially) with ArchLinux, but haven't had a use for that for ages.

After getting M1 Macbook Air my Thinkpad T480s with Windows sits mostly unused. I can't imagine going back to not passively cooled and not dead silent laptop now. I probably will get T14 whatever gen eventually for Windows work, but hopefully not yet.

My work laptops have always been Dells...

ThinkPad X250 and FreeBSD13.1-RELEASE with pkg's

This might be more interesting/easier to interpret as a poll if you can still edit that.

Dell vostro whatever one has the 12 gen i7 and 3050ti

Macbook pro at work because it’s what all my colleagues use

Thinkpad running mint for my personal machine

Thinkpad t480s with Ubuntu. I'll give the whole experience a 8/10.

Speakers and mic are really bad for the price.

Macbook Air M1 (personal) Macbook Pro M1 (work)

Primary computer is a desktop (since going full remote): ubuntu on repurposed gaming rig. I'm really happy with how well this computer works. As such, it's taken some of the pressure off having a perfect laptop.

Laptops:

Dell XPS 13 with ubuntu (preconfigured with ubuntu from Dell) -- has been an incredibly steady machine for years. I bought the framework laptop, installed ubuntu, but never got around to tweaking it to work as well as the Dell. So even though the framework is new, hardware better in every way it just sits on a shelf.

I also use newer thinkpad for work with windows -- it's fine I guess.

Work laptop (issued by company): MacBook Pro late 2019 (16", i9, 64 GB of ram)

Personal laptop: Surface Pro X (SQ2, 16 GB of ram)

I use a desktop for most of my work and personal things though, I only use the laptops when I'm not home

Linux, Fedora on laptop.

That way my servers and laptop's file structure and configuration stays the same. I can test on laptop, and then sync up to the server. Or if something breaks, can always sync down the files and check on laptop.

Mac at work, but considering switching to a Linux machine (maybe System76/PopOS?) on the next refresh we do.

For my personal machine, and LG Gram 17" - I think about 2 years old at this point - the value/hardware is a pretty great value IMO (and frequently goes on sale at Costco), it's ultralight (important for me), still has a number pad, and a 16x10 display, unusual IMO outside of the Mac world. And the screen is gorgeous. Maybe not Mac/Retina (but I run my Mac screen at highest resolution rather than Retina anyways, so it more similar than you'd expect).

Thinkpad X1 Carbon 6th Gen running Linux (EndeavourOS)

slimbook (with Ubuntu 22.10)

Works like a charm.

At work I'm forced to use a MBP and I hate it, battery last 1h is always doing noises is painfully slow, nothing works well with M1, updates requires 1h lost on a black screen. And sometimes release broken things...

Macbook Pro M1 Ultra (32C / 64GB RAM / 1TB)

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