What's a cheaply priced laptop for traveling? It doesn't need to be capable of much, just running a browser and cloning repos/building small repos.
Was thinking microsoft surface, but I just checked and they seem to have gotten more expensive.
What do?
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thinkpad t480
this
also this
this too
Altogether, look for good battery life. Thinkpads have good battery life, from my experience.
As a general rule of thumb use a steam deck as a rock solid reference point. Compare CPU/GPU/RAM specs to determine if the value is good or not.
Used intel or m1 MacBook
Basically these ,
Over the years, I've come to find that battery life is the most important aspect of a laptop when traveling. The M MacBooks are the best for traveling because of this. If you can't stand macOS, then look for Windows laptops with good battery life, but I'm not sure if they exist
those anons are recommending used models though. That's like buying used toilet paper because the SSD is soldered.
I'm not joking, look it up.
M1 macbooks use phone CPUs and have soldered SSDs. Used intel macbooks might be alright since you can change the SSD.
Also it compares very poorly to a $400 steam deck CPU/GPU/RAM-wise.
no one cares. you're traveling, not hot swapping your home server fricking moron
>Le soldered SSDs!!
Not everybody is a mom's basement dweller, frameworkcuck. OP was asking laptop recommendations for traveling purposes so battery is a top priority in the list.
Low capacity SSDs are a problem though. Those are the first ones guaranteed to fail first. If you choose a 1TB m1 mac vs a 256GB m1 mac isn't the price difference like $200? LOL
>M1 macbooks use phone CPUs
they objectively dont
What the frick are you talking about? It's just iPhone CPUs with more cores thrown in. That's literally a "phone" CPU.
>Budget
>MacBook
https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/inspiron-14-laptop/spd/inspiron-14-3420-laptop/nn3420fuqoh
>Used intel
This is about as vague as you could get
>intel
hahahaha I know this is bait but wow what a gay
Used m1 MacBook air if you are okay with using Mac os (bad)
Otherwise get an Asus zenbook 14
Dell Latitude 3440.
uuughh .... your phone?
You need to go back.
never came
just any cheap acer or dell inspiron or whatever.
>muh battery life
realistically how long would you be using it without a charger?
just get a chromebook for a few hundred dollars. old stinkpads suck ass for traveling, a m1 macbook is a decent choice but no reason to spend all that money when a chromebook will do all you need.
If you're not poor or overly hung up on misinterpreting specs across platforms, the M1 Macbook Air is $700 at Walmart. It's even cheaper than a refurb from Apple.
Now compare CPU/GPU/RAM specs vs a 16GB RAM $400 steam deck.
You ARE talking about the 16GB RAM m1 macbook and not the EXTREMELY DOGSHIT 8GB RAM m1 macbook, right?
Not him but an 8GB M1 is plenty for browsing and building small projects. Frankly it's plenty for most things, especially if you're willing to live with it swapping occasionally.
It's crazy that Apple are so miserly with the RAM, but in practice it does work well.
IT'S INSANELY DOGSHIT. 8GB RAM = lags hard as a motherfricker at everything.
Why do you think most people return it so much?
>lags hard as a motherfricker at everything.
Macs don't run Windows or Android, moron.
He's right though, 8GB RAM macbooks are one of the biggest buyer's remorse things right now. It's just not enough RAM in 2024 especially because the RAM also acts like vRAM.
I'm sure anon's going to be encoding lots of 4k video on his travels.
you're right he should just use it as a chromebook instead
oh wait 8gb even kneecaps that use case lmao
>you need 16 GB of ram to browse the web
the absolute state of CONSOOOOOMERS
You're right 8GB is fi-
>This webpage was reloaded because it was using significant memory.
It degrades the SSD faster than normal you simpleton.
I think this queer is talking about an issue m1 macbooks had that was fixed four years ago
for some reason thinks people here remember
So instead of using the SSD as RAM they just lag hard as a motherfricker constantly reloading shit all the time?
THANKS TIM APPLE
none of my macs have this issue so I'm not sure what the frick you're even talking about
are you autistic
>He's right though, 8GB RAM macbooks are one of the biggest buyer's remorse things right now
I literally don't know a single person who wants to return, sell, or upgrade their <5yo Mac. People mostly use them as laptops rather than serious workstations.
>light dev work
>web browsing
>video calls
>word/spreadsheets
>thin client
>photo/video editing on the go
>travel computer
>lags hard as a motherfricker at everything
I use mine most days. It's lightning fast. There are a few activities I know are basically ruled out due to the RAM (VMs, machine learning) so I don't attempt those. Everything else is perfect.
If yours really lags like you describe, first try reinstalling macOS and then find a local repair place. It's not normal.
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>notebook computer vs a glorified nintendo switch.
ok. I guess OP is travelling, so why not add more inconveniences to his computing setup.
>the M1 Macbook Air is $700 at Walmart
its fricking 1000€ here in Germany what a ripoff. Even the refurb is 900€ I could have sworn it used to be 800.
Really? I paid 1500€ for a new 16/512 m1 air 2 years ago here
New model is about the same price for the same specs.
Whatever Acer pile is on sale is generally a good starting starting point. Ive seen Ryzen 3 & 5 models in the sub $400 price range that will be adaquet for day to day use. Only downside is that battery life is still only around 4-7 hours depending on what youre doing.
thinkpad t480s
Do not use Microsoft surfaces. They have encrypted drives, and the keys are kept by Microsoft on their cloud. You can only ask for the key, to your computer, if it locks up. If that isn't fricked up I don't know what is.
for this i think the refurbed m1 air is still a good choice, i got the 8gb m1 air as my first mac and i still use it for travel/daily stuff. ridiculous battery and super light.
the 8gb ram falls apart if you keep lots of apps and tabs open, however. I've always closed stuff I'm not using so it works for me. I do game development, 3d modelling, coding with jetbrains/vs code, remote server management, writing, browsing. I get more work done with this m1 than I did with my previous thinkpad p50 xeon chunker and the m1 is actually small and light enough to bring places and sit down to with. Another big benefit is being able to pack one charger for my phone and laptop while traveling.
One substantial negative is I have to be aggressive about keeping data off the device because the min spec 256gb ssd leaves about half of that (~128gb) for you to use once the OS and all its caching expands out. Start installing brew packages/applications and you'll see how little space you have to work with. I've more recently been using vscodes ssh based remote editor to code and compile off my linux server so the footprint is lessened.
all that said i think the m1 air is one of the best laptops apple ever made. 700$ for one at best buy
used macbook
TCL Book 14 Go. ARM is the future!
It even has 4g built-in and runs Windows.
any used dell from ebay, got mine for like 130 bux , sweet deal detachable keyboard and active stylus and other shit
refurbished thinkpad x230
got one from ebay recently in almost new condition for 90 bucks with new keyboard + battery + 16gb ram + 256ssd + new cmos battery it came to a total of 200 bucks
you cant so any better these machines are reliable as hell and the 12'6 inch size makes it incredily compact
oh, so it's stealth apple advertising season