Laptop reviews?

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Has anyone bought a higher end laptop in the last six months to a year? What do you think of it now?

Looking to get 15.6" FHD, 16-32GB RAM, i7, 8th or 9th generation, backlit keyboard with discrete graphics.

Thanks for your time.

[vinnywright]

I got this 4-5 years ago , and I feel like it's still going strong .

https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...l=1#post359264

VINNY

[SpecialEd]

Thanks Vinny. The Gazelle is on my shortlist and System76 seems to be the only place I can get exactly what I want, as in each individual component. That being said I have some reservations about System76. They do rely on a bit of snob appeal and are projecting themselves as the "Apple" of Linux. I never much cared for Apple's "We're for the creators, the artists" ethos. I just want some power that will last me a while and the ability to do some minor video editing without having to wait all day.

[Don B. Cilly]

My son was here a while ago with a Lenovo X1 Carbon.
(and yes, we did install Kubuntu on it ;·)

Quite impressive. Fast, rugged, battery life is really something.
I has a backlit keyboard too. :·)

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Lenovo is the other brand on my shortlist. The problem is finding a 15.6" display(numpad is a must)with discrete graphics.

[Don B. Cilly]

Well, the X1 Extreme has a 15'6" screen and an nvidia GTX 1050 GPU.
Wouldn't really know about how discrete that is...

[MoonRise]

MSI here. Specs in sig below. Been pleased. Actually have a newer version of it at work. 7th Gen i7.

[SpecialEd]

Thanks for the suggestions but I've already set things in motion and my new System76 Gazelle shipped today.

[oshunluvr]

I bought a Lenovo Yoga 730 15" screen "Platinum" model.

Runs super fast with Neon. The fingerprint scanner isn't Linux supported (yet) and I haven't fiddled much with the touch screen, but it does appear to work.

Initially, I had to figure out how to disable Intel RST without wiping Windows 10 (for warranty service if needed). Then I had a bunch of video problems. First, nvidia wouldn't start using the default open source driver. Since I couldn't get to the desktop, I had to figure out how to enable wifi (no ethernet port) at the command line then I could install the nvidia driver. Once I had that working I had to figure out how to adjust the display because Plasma is not working well at 4K out-of-the-box on smaller screens. That took a couple hours.

Now it's pretty solid. SDDM doesn't do HiDPI well either so when I initially power it on the log in screen is tiny. No matter though because I just type in my password and hit Enter. If I log out, the log in screen keeps the desktop settings so it's more normal looking.

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I received my new 15" Gazelle on Monday. I promptly loaded KDE Neon over the pre-installed Ubuntu. I had some teething problems, couldn't get the Nvidia drivers working right and there were a couple other quirks that I just couldn't figure out. So ashamedly, after the fact, I checked the checksums and no go. I tried d/l Neon a few times but couldn't get the checksums to pass. I loaded Kubuntu 18.04 this afternoon and everything fell into place, Nvidia GPU is working, everything running smoothly. My fears of buying a product sight-unseen, have been put to rest. Of course we're only on day 3.