I’m keeping it as I still need more machines for testing. Sorry!

That StarFighter looks crazy. I too bad it’s 5 months out. Thanks for the recommendation!

I tend to stick to Debian derivatives for the most part, but I do a lot of work across multiple flavors depending on what I’m working on at any given time. Sometimes I’m in RHEL, sometimes SLED, sometimes Ubuntu, etc.

I develop software and do a lot of PoC with VMs and containers.

I’ll take a look. Thank you for the recommendation.

I like the idea of a System76 machine, but have never used one IRL. Nor do I know of anyone who has one. As a result, I’m hesitant on making the leap without some level of expertise/experience to back up the decision.

Yeah, the RAM is a hard requirement. I’d like more if I could. My desktop is AMD so I’m not against using them at all if it makes sense to do so. I’ve also enjoyed Lenovo in the past but couldn’t find a well enough equipped unit for my liking.

I’m in DevSecOps, and do a lot of heavy development and testing, as well as PoCs. Ideally, I’d have 128GB of RAM but laptops aren’t quite there yet. The HD is a Samsung SSD.

I usually have the GPU set to integrated graphics unless I’m doing some heavy load in which case I’ll switch over to the nvidia GPU. I also switch between power modes depending on my use case at the time.

There’s not a lot I can do with the CPU other than the optimizations I’ve done thus far. It’s actually one of the main reasons I’m looking to upgrade so I can have better performance per watt and take advantage of various cores depending on workload.

That’s an interesting point. I could buy my wife a new Air and update her M1 to run Linux. Thanks for the suggestion!

Yup, it’s absolutely on my list. I’m specifically interested in the 16”, but it’s not available yet. Additionally, the soonest I could get the 13” is Q4. I’m wanting something before then.

Thank you for the feedback!

To add, while I still enjoy my laptop, my biggest issues are battery life and heat. This thing could fry an egg when it’s under load. At best, I get 3 hours of usage on battery even with a lower resolution, low brightness, power management utilities optimizing performance, and running on my integrated GPU vs the nvidia GPU.