I have been buying the lowest priced HP/Acer/ASUS that has the features I want. I don't know that there is much difference between them, and I am not sure who the real maker/designed of the laptop is.
See the ODM section on this page; From that it becomes clear you have zero idea who really made/designed the product and how good of a job they did. So pick the price and features that you want and ignore the Brand as the brand seems to matter little anymore.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laptop_brands_and_manufacturers
On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 10:36 AM bruce badouglas@gmail.com wrote:
Hi George.
The laptop in question would be one of the AMD 5 ryzen 6/10 core systems from the hp site.
I'd add mem/1TB internal drive as well.
thanks for your comments!
On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 10:05 AM George N. White III gnwiii@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 10:21 PM bruce badouglas@gmail.com wrote:
Hi.
Looking at getting another laptop.
Any thoughts on completely transferring as well as updating the data on the current drive to the new laptop.
I populate my home directory on a new machine from the backup of the old machine. In the past I used NFS, but now my backups are on USB drives. It Is helpful to have the old machine in working order to troubleshoot things that break on the new system (usually my own programs that use a library that is no longer available from distros — a hint that I need to find a newer library.
Assume I might be dealing with a diff flavor of linux. I'm not sure what the new laptop will have.
I don't want bleeding edge fedora.. (unless I change my mind).
I don't want RHEL/centos -- I'd like to be newer.
So, give me your thoughts as well as best practice that you use for this kind of process...
I find there are often issues with newer systems. At present, businesses are dumping windows systems that won’t run Win11, so you can find higher end laptops 2 or 3 years old at bargain prices. Many are excellent linux platforms, but you need to check on linux-hardware.org. There are often issues with display brightness, sound, or wifi. I deal with by updating the wifi and using a USB sound dongle or a high end USB sound device.
Laptops this age generally allow you to upgrade internal wifi, RAM, and SSD. If you are considering a big-name laptop with linux pre-installed, you may be able to check the specs at linux-hardware.org.
-- George N. White III
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