I’m sick of my laptop breaking after just three years. I want a laptop that:

  • comes with a nice APU
  • does not have a dGPU
  • comes with a chonky thermal solution
  • has lots of battery juice
  • has lots of modern ports
  • is repairable
  • is rugged, bulky and thick
  • is equipped with a nice, thonky keyboard
  • isn’t one of those stupid, low-quality “gAmIng lApTOp”

So far, only the X220 and MNT Reform comes close to this description - the former is a really slow machine for today’s time, and for some reason, still damn expensive. The latter is just too expensive to the point that I’ll have to sell all eight kidneys in my family.

Do they sell anything like this in today’s time, with a reasonable price?

PS. Thick is a strong requirement. I want a really nice cooling solution, plus it also serves it’s purpose as a melee weapon to removed-slap those ultra-book trash-talkers.

  • lud@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    Yeah, business tier laptops like the ThinkPad and Dell Latitude (excluding the 3xxx line) lines are generally seen as reliable computers but cheaper laptops like the ideapads are very much not so.

    I would never buy an Ideapad but I really like Thinkpads.

    If I were you I would just buy an old used Latitude 5xxx or ThinkPad in good condition from the last 3-6 years (or newer if you can afford it). They will most likely work perfectly fine for what you want to do. I have also replaced the tiny ass 256 GB SATA SSD with a 1 TB NVME one.

    If you were ever considering an x280, please get one with an IPS 1080p screen. I got the one with an TN panel It’s horrible (awful colour, awful resolution, and awful viewing angles) compared to the IPS one. Luckily you can buy an IPS replacement on eBay so I did that.

    If this was your first laptop I wouldn’t go overkill by buying some rugged laptop just yet. It might just have been a laptop constructed on a monday.

    Honestly you will probably be fine by buying whatever computer that’s in decent condition on the Facebook marketplace or some other local site. Yes a bunch of ports is very nice but you will seriously have a hard time finding any thing with that nowadays. So unfortunately it’s just easier to buy a USB-C dongle/dock with all the ports.

    Btw from what I can find the x280 was just slightly more expensive than the s540 was new.