In less distressing news: my personal laptop is on its way out.
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In less distressing news: my personal laptop is on its way out. (It's busted as hell, to be honest.)
So, nerds of the Fedi: what's good? I want a laptop to do writing and recreational coding. I don't hate myself enough for Windows but can install a Linux distro myself. Macs are also okay. Must be available in the UK. Prefer lightweight and sturdy over large and/or beefy. Preferably less than £1500 because that's what I've got in spare cash.
Boosts welcome.
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@[email protected] I don't have one but everything I hear about Framework is excellent (plus repairability) and it looks like the pre-built starts at around ~1000 pounds.
https://frame.work/gb/en/products/laptop13-diy-intel-ultra-1 and https://frame.work/gb/en/products/laptop-13-gen-amd/configuration/new
depending on if you have a preference for AMD vs. Intel (I'm not up to date on their most recent laptop chipset offerings so I don't really know the difference) -
@[email protected] oh! Cheaper if you go with the DIY edition since that doesn't include the Windows fee, as well. nice.
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@aud Tempting. I've never built a laptop. I feel like I'd have to fistfight my partner for the privilege. Or at least come up with a distraction to stop them hovering over my shoulder excitedly the whole time...
Seriously though I'd forgotten about Framework. This is a good shout.
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@[email protected]
sometimes I'm like, "is it weird that I'm pushing a company I haven't even... used?" but then the idea of just... getting to continue using parts! Less waste! Compatible shit! Is just so goddamn compelling.
I certainly haven't heard anything bad about them, although I haven't been in the market for a new laptop for a while and I haven't tried to find bad stuff about them. So. -
@aud @astronomerritt I have one, and highly recommend it
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@aud Right?? E-waste is a serious fucking problem!! Laptops shouldn't be essentially disposable! Tablets are bad enough. Being able to just fix my own shit in a normal way like I would with my PC is appealing.
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@[email protected] And the idea of just, if you DO need an upgrade, just slotting in a new piece and keeping your screen, your case, your... if it's not worn out, keep it! like ffs.
(plus you can, in theory, build a 'hand-me-down' for someone once you start retiring parts!) -
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@aud @astronomerritt I've not owned one myself, but a close friend bought one two months ago and loves it. Still early, ofc, so please take with a grain of salt, but it's something?
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@[email protected] Somewhere in the back of my mind, this style of compatible and repairable laptop takes off and one day we're all building spare clusters out of old laptop mainboards for community owned computing
also for whatever reason when I typed this out, my brain imagined me running this cluster from a lemonade stand on a junk-filled sidewalk, so I think I 100% need more sleep. -
@[email protected] (obviously when my brain is doing a little free association imagery, totally the time to be working on my CV. ... hmmm...)
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@aud @astronomerritt Server farms, but with paddocks for the computers, some of which have been out of to pasture
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@[email protected] @[email protected] looking at the current price of accelerators "gunna be a grim 'ahvest this yeah"
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@[email protected] @[email protected] "welp, the compute job might take ah... bout two weeks, heah. no no, 's clean work, and simple besides, but 's the holiday season, so the big nodes're all tied up till the new yeah! so it's just the small ones. but they need the work, and they're good at it, too. reckon they're mighty excited to compute for you"
now I just want SLURM to report things in a folksy patois -
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@xgranade @aud @astronomerritt i have one and it’s great!
Also don’t be scared of the DIY version, assembly is straightforward (though the wifi leads are a little fiddly)
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@xgranade @aud @astronomerritt also my home desktop is a Framework mainboard, which I kept after upgrading, happy to answer questions.
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@cthos useful knowledge, thank you! I'm not afraid of bullding a laptop, I've built PCs and I've actually replaced a laptop wifi card before (which was EXTREMELY fiddly because the laptop was not built to make this simple task easy) (which is one reason why Framework appeals to me actually)
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@astronomerritt it’s so so good. 5 captive screws are all that’s preventing you from getting at innards and it’s all so well organized.
Even changing the display is simpler than it has any right to be.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] well fuck, that's fucking cool!
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@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] I think I have yet to interact with a wifi lead that can't be described as "fiddly", at the best of times.
