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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 02 2016, @09:24PM
We're going to be forced into upgrading all our win machines to Win10. Currently I run Win 7 with linux in a VM. Ahead of the forced upgrade, I want to get a new laptop that will run linux and have Win10 in a VM.
What to people use for linux laptops these days? I use my computer for developing software and running scientific software. Like the article submitter, I don't need a lot of the fancy crap, but I wouldn't mind a screen bigger than 13".
(Score: 1) by rev_irreverence on Saturday December 03 2016, @05:01AM
I have a Lenovo X1 carbon running Fedora 25 and Windows 10 inside a VM. Everything pretty much worked out of the box and has been rock solid stable ever since.