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Hi!

I'm in the market for a new laptop and I'd like to consult with the community about what's being recommended on the year 2026.

This is a laptop that I intend to use for both playing games and using as a mobile coding platform so battery and horsepower are the main points that I'd take into consideration, prioritising battery power.

I do not care if it's otherwise bulky.

I am currently encountering issues with AMD hardware on my main machine so just having a guarantee that the hardware is not gonna flop on me would be a big plus.

All in all! Thanks for giving my post a read and any answer would be appreciated, specially in the 900€ range.

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[-] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I use a Tuxedo Computers InfinityBook 15.

Pros:

  • Vendor Linux support. I don't care about using a supported distro, but if a vendor ships with Linux, it's pretty good odd that the hardware will work with any distro without any weird quirks.

  • Being able to order with a fairly large amount of memory (I use 96 GB, and it's available with 128GB now), though with what memory prices have done recently, memory may be limited more by price than motherboard capacity. I'm sure that it'd blow a 900 euro budget.

  • Large battery (can get 100 Wh, the most you can fly with in the US).

  • Screen can get up to be fairly bright, which is nice for use in brighter environments. My past laptops, mostly Thinkpads, tended to fairly dim screens.

Cons:

  • Ships from Europe (Tuxedo is German). With Trump-era tariffs, buying them in the US is going to be more-painful. It also took a while to ship to the US when I bought it. You're using a euro sign, so it may not be a con for you.

  • I'm not rabid about the trackpad, which is large and doesn't have physical buttons. I find myself bumping the trackpad occasionally, and have set up keybindings to disable it in some games where it's a problem. I'm a fan of Synaptics trackpads of the sort that Thinkpads have, a smaller pad with three built-in physical buttons (Linux being a good environment to use three buttons), but very few laptops have this; some Thinkpads do.

  • The power light does not pulse when the laptop is in sleep (not hibernate) mode; if there is a way to remedy this, I have not found it. I have my system set up to, on lid close, sleep, then hibernate after ten minutes or so, so tapping the power button will shut the system down depending upon how long it's been sleeping; something that I don't want to accidentally do when it's still just in sleep mode. Many laptops are able to do this.

  • There's more flex to the case than Thinkpads, which are mostly what I've used in the past. Putting a lot of pressure on the bottom of the case below the fan, like squeezing the case hard, is enough to make it impact the fan when it's spinning.

In the past, I have used mostly Thinkpads, but Lenovo has tended to take them in an increasingly inexpensive-but-not-as-good direction from where IBM originally had 'em. For me, the two front-runners when getting this one were either Tuxedo or Framework.

I am currently encountering issues with AMD hardware on my main machine

I have an AMD processor. I'm not sure what your concern is


like, are you wanting a laptop with an Intel CPU, or just not to have a discrete AMD GPU, or are you just frustrated at that other laptop?

[-] Gonzako@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Oh, great recommendation! I am on Europe so Tuxedo being German is actually a plus!

For the issue my main PC is currently being affected by a very similar issue to this which forces a gpu reset shortly after I start anything that basically looks at the gpu funny. This is a new issue that started after an update and downgrading everything I could didn't fix it.

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