Ars Technica has an editorial on what they'd want in a laptop in 2017. Inspired by this, I figured to make my own list and ask SN for input. I'm not looking for a laptop, but it's fun to think about specs, right?
Anyway, I do think use case is important. My use case: working and travelling daily with laptop, sometimes to various institutes to give presentations. This already leads to some important requirements:
Thinking about it more, most of the things the Ars Editor loves are things I honestly don't use, or actively do not want (touch screen).
With that in mind, I'd arrive at:
Other than that I'd go for modern iterations of specs for things like ethernet, wifi, CPU, etc. So Kaby Lake processor, things like that. GPU is not a big issue, so probably the integrated Intel thing on a modern Intel CPU will be sufficient.
Anything I missed? Anything you'd do radically different? If so: why?
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday December 02 2016, @08:43PM
I bought a work laptop 6 months ago, with a 17" 4K screen (not overkill, I need it as video source), 16G of RAM and an i7 so I can compile, and a real Ethernet port to talk to our 1RU.
I'd get a slim-ish 15" with 16G of RAM and a real keyboard for myself, if that existed.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 02 2016, @10:44PM
I have a decent-sized 13" that I upgraded to 16G of RAM and a half terabyte SSD. It has all the ports I want (except that I need a dongle for VGA and HDMI projectors for presentations). It's fast enough for me with an i5.
It's a 2012 MacBook Pro.
I haven't seen a better computer since then.