Hi, I’m looking for a good laptop to run linux that has a touchscreen with a stylus to take math notes(ik I should be using latex or typst but im too lazy) and good battery life, preferably one that folds into tablet mode to make taking notes easier.

I’m not planning on doing any gaming or video editing on it, just web/notes/programming and potentially a windows VM for software that doesn’t work on linux. I also want to try getting into some ricing :). I’ve been looking at the lenovo yoga 9i, it seems to be pretty good and I found some people that had good linux experiences with it. One thing that would be nice is an hdmi port which the yoga doesn’t have as my job involves a lot of AV stuff, but I can just get an adapter.

Any other suggestions? I can probably spend like 1000$ on it but obviously less is better, I’ll probably get it used/refurbished from ebay.

  • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 days ago

    The framework 12 can be configured to be reasonably cheap, but it’s specs are weird. Big battery, but an 13th Gen. i3 or i5, and only 1 ram slot. Battery life should be good, but I’m not expecting. They’re not the greatest laptops or anything, their specific niche is repairability. So you get a very repairable laptop, not necessarily the best laptop.

    Adapters are kinda life in the USB C world. The framework at least has them built in. Does the yoga at least have thunderbolt? I don’t think the framework does and TB is NICE for higher end stuff.

    • piguyisme@programming.devOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Thanks for the suggestion! I didn’t even know the framework 12 came out yet, it seems great but I’m not sure if the repairability is worth it for its price/performance and the fact that it would be hard to get one used. The yoga 9i does have thunderbolt and there are some pretty good deals for it on Ebay, I might get a framework later if I can find one used but I doubt I can this close to when it released.

    • SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev
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      3 days ago

      The ports are not built into the chassis. They are modules for slots that the chassis has. The framework 12 has 4. I am not sure if you can output to 4 displays but you can have 4 DisplayPort modules plugged in. I think the latest batch has better processor options.