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Hello all,

I'm intending to purchase a fresh laptop and would genuinely value input from this community. I seek suggestions centered on speed, dependability, endurance, construction quality, and general cost-effectiveness.

My interests span laptops for gaming, professional tasks, academic pursuits, coding, media production, or routine usage, so hearing about specific models and manufacturers you endorse would be fantastic. Have you found better outcomes with Dell, HP, Lenovo, ASUS, Acer, Apple, or perhaps others?

Furthermore, are there any particular laptops or specifications you consider overhyped or overpriced?

Eagerly awaiting your recommendations and firsthand accounts. Many thanks beforehand!

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For years before I retired (IT) the laptop of choice for our company was the IBM (now Lenovo) Thinkpad. When I retired and had to spend my own money I went Dell (Inspiron). It was a great machine so the next laptop was also a Dell. That one, and its replacement, under warranty, when Dell was unable to fix multiple problems, were never very satisfactory. I switched to ASUS for myself and family members. About half of these were crap. I learned to not skimp on cost. My latest is a Lenovo Thinkpad and it is a rock solid machine with lots of RAM, an Nvidia GPU as well as an NPU. It was over $3000 but I'm not sorry I spent the extra $.

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I recently had to buy a new laptop and I ended up going for a Framework machine. I went for that because almost all components are replaceable and upgradable which is a rare quality in a laptop these days. I'm hoping that it means I can keep it relatively current and it will be long time before a replacement is required.

commented: In an age of closed ecosystems and 0% user repairability, framework is a beacon +17
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I've read about those. Please keep us posted on your experience with it.

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@trcooke I've read about those. Please keep us posted on your experience with it.

Will do. I've had it a couple of months now and it's been decent. I use it for work and multiple instances of IntelliJ are no problem for it, and you may know that IntelliJ is notoriously beastly on system resources. My old XPS13 with one IntelliJ open would struggle to run Teams which made for a less than professional experience when trying to talk to my customers.

I really like that the ports are separate modules you can swap in and out as required. I have a nice collection of spares for all occasions such as RJ45, DP, USB-A, USB-C, HDMI.

TLDR: It's a decent machine and reasonably priced compared to similar spec models from the big players (Dell, Apple, etc).

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