Just leaving this here in case you don’t know: there are also the Framework laptops, which are designed to be modular, upgradable, and have easy to buy replacement parts.
They even sell motherboards, so you can now get a e.g. Intel Core Ultra motherboard for your 3-4 year old laptop.
Of course It’s a bit more expensive than a used 10 year old Thinkpad, but it kind of competes with other high end laptops, and it is cheaper especially when you consider it’s designed to last more
(Not a sponsored post, just glad there is a company that makes such products, and that when I broke a part I could just go to their store and order a replacement instead of searching for serial numbers on random online stores etc like I’ve done before)
It’s a really old SMT2 processor with just two physical cores. Even a physical quad-core with SMT2 struggles in 2024, especially if you’re trying to build from source (I use Guix, btw). You need a workstation processor - the U series isn’t going to cut for the task you’re trying to do. Maybe a H, HQ, K or KF-labelled processor? Something like a 6700HQ, 6820HQ, or a Xeon 1505/1535 v5/v6? The P5x series (not the P5xs) is what you need, minus the dGPU. They’re still quite expensive, and at this point, you’re better off getting a A485/T495/T14 Gen 1/2.
I’ve started looking more into getting an ARM laptop. I know a bloke who has an M1 Macbook and it has indescribable battery life without sacrificing performance. Apple is out of the question due to their walled garden, though (I don’t want to get sucked into their ecosystem and end up with an iPhone, Apple Watch, and who knows what else), so Snapdragon X series it is for me.
About the Qualcomm processors, I’d advise you to wait. There’s a lot of hype going around, and apparently, it isn’t as good as Apple’s ARM processor. Honestly, AMD processors are almost what you’re looking for - low-power processors, highly performant iGPU, bang for buck. In fact, if you look at the newer processors, they also provide power-efficient chips, which is almost similar to the big.LITTLE in Arm - Zen4, paired alongside Zen4c. This pattern is also visible with their newer Strix Point - having both the Zen5 and the Zen5c chiplets.
During my studies I worked at the faculty, „typesetting“ the following for my professor: www.amazon.de/…/3374024653
>700 pages in Microsoft Word in 2006. I knew about LaTeX, but was not familiar enough to convert everything to LaTeX and integrate last minute changes on top. The authors of course only knew word and the professor did editing and typesetting in parallel.
Afterwards all my academic text were written in LaTeX with Bibtex and I never looked back.
At this point I’m curious: WTF is Microsoft Word even good for? It’s like the worst-in-class tool for all things word processing, page layout, typesetting, embedding other stuff into the document, and more. Why are people still torturing themselves with this garbage? Just because it’s there? I mean, Wordpad is there too (though maybe not for much longer) but nobody uses that. It’s also garbage but still…
It’s the most reachable thing. Markdown feels like a toy for many (not me) and people outside of academia look at you kinkily if you suggest latex and bibtex.
none of its direct competitors have the same feature set, and a word processor that can give me compile time errors is not one i'm going to use with much enthusiasm
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