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Laptop recommendations w/ touchscreen stylus & good battery life? (programming.dev)
submitted 3 days ago by piguyisme@programming.dev to c/linuxhardware@programming.dev
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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.

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[–] infinitevalence@discuss.online 1 points 3 days ago

Minisforum V3 is the next best after the Framework 12. It has a better CPU but its not a real laptop its a surface like device, and while the CPU is far more powerful than the Framework 12, it will only get about 4 hours on battery. If you can pick up a "bricked" V3 it is possible to unbrick it, but its a PITA, but because of that they can be found for a deal.