Decent graphics or decent battery life: Can’t have both in a laptop.
My gaming laptop is an Eluktronics Prometheus 17 and that’s pretty pretty good (minus battery life, maaaybe 3 hours with light use, probably closer to 1 for gaming) but for regular use I stick to my L14 Thinkpad with Cinnamon Mint on default settings and it can do 4+ hours no problem.
I’ve got a Thinkpad T14 G1 stowed away, and that thing is pretty sweet… But being AMD powered, the best resolution it’s capable of is just 1920x1080, which drives me absolutely insane on a small 14" screen. My Spectre runs a much nicer 4K OLED touch display (which I can’t imagine helps with battery life).
I barely use the Spectre for gaming.
Edit: Honestly - after googling around a bit - if I can successfully install the missing SMD capacitors on the eDP connection, I will happily daily the Thinkpad.
Fair, I’m not one to yuck someone else’s yum. I just don’t understand the obsession with it. But whatever, doesn’t hurt me.
My daily driver laptop is actually a 15" HP Spectre x360, running LMDE7. Outside of the battery life (or a lack thereof), I love it.
Decent graphics or decent battery life: Can’t have both in a laptop.
My gaming laptop is an Eluktronics Prometheus 17 and that’s pretty pretty good (minus battery life, maaaybe 3 hours with light use, probably closer to 1 for gaming) but for regular use I stick to my L14 Thinkpad with Cinnamon Mint on default settings and it can do 4+ hours no problem.
I’ve got a Thinkpad T14 G1 stowed away, and that thing is pretty sweet… But being AMD powered, the best resolution it’s capable of is just 1920x1080, which drives me absolutely insane on a small 14" screen. My Spectre runs a much nicer 4K OLED touch display (which I can’t imagine helps with battery life).
I barely use the Spectre for gaming.
Edit: Honestly - after googling around a bit - if I can successfully install the missing SMD capacitors on the eDP connection, I will happily daily the Thinkpad.