ThinkPad P1 Gen 8

Skip all the hype brands. Durable laptops with good Linux support are made by only 3 companies: Dell, Lenovo and HP. Discard all other options. Imo the absolute best laptop you can buy right now is the Dell Pro Max 16 Premium. See this video. Skip the GPU as always unless you really need it. Worthy

Dell Pro Max as they call it these days. I would also add P1 Gen 8 or any of the older P1 ThinkPads

Screw the MacBook, go for the ThinkPad. MacOS updates are always a f*cking mess with any 3rd party tools/apps - especially Python (brew-installed) versions. I've always been biased against Apple products since they make repairs unnecessarily difficult and costly. Steve Jobs was a hacker and a modder

It means it will be supported, so if you have an issue with the software you will be able to get support from the software vendor. If you run unsupported hardware and have issues then you cannot get support. You will also get more reliable performance. If you don't care about support, then the 3080

I'm very happy with my P1 Gen 4 running Fedora GNOME. That being said, I paid less than 700$CA for an i7-118550H, RTX A2000 Mobile, 1x16Gb RAM and a 512Gb SSD. If you can just go with the MacBook Pro, I'd advise doing that (and saving money while you're at it). If you have to run x86-64 Linux and Wi

This was already mentioned but if you haven't yet, search for the hardware maintenance manual for the models you're looking at. Some of this should be in the user manual, e.g. you can see the list of customer replaceable units (IBMese for user replacement parts) and the instruction for that in the m

A Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 8 should be plenty. I bought one from Lenovo, upgraded ram and hard drive to the max. I trade from it daily. When I’m in my office, it’s connected to a docking station that’s connected to a 32 inch curved 4k and backup storage connected to the docking station. They have an o

Go with the ThinkPad T1g (same as P1, with different GPU options), Gen 8. I got the full maxed out version with the 64GB LPCAMM2 ram module. Smooth as butter. From my order post: I had a chance to test this laptop further: fan had a minimum noise to almost no noise during youtube video watching, som

ThinkPad P1 Gen 8. Dell Pro Max 16 Premium. Those are the best in my opinion. (X1 Carbon is 14 inch btw, why is it on your shortlist?)

For me it's always been lack of parity with windows. I mean on a driver level. If you buy a laptop with a fingerprint reader, or IR camera for windows hello login, there really isn't a solution to get those working in Linux unless the manufacturer supports it. Lenovo and thinkpads are known to have