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Any suggestions on a modern light and fast laptop, optimized for writing? Any Suggestions? Fast cpu and good battery on the Windows or Mac Os side.

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2 minutes ago, Borgus Bohr said:

optimized for writing

Then in this case anything that has the best built in keyboard for you. This is severely subjective so in this case i would try a bunch of laptops physically. For example i got pretty into Asus chiclets and their scissors so i ended the find with picking up a Vivobook. It was pretty damn good typing experience, and it being portable makes me more productive than on my mechanical keyboard.

 

And yeah, its pretty obvious that if you just gonna plug in external keyboard everything else is moot point. In this case, find the biggest batteried laptop you can get with low wattage CPU, and then double check on sites like notebookcheck on their load battery life in PCMark.

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thinkpad? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

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15 hours ago, Mark Kaine said:

thinkpad? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

They’re probably the most overrated laptop around 

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15 hours ago, Borgus Bohr said:


Any suggestions on a modern light and fast laptop, optimized for writing? Any Suggestions? Fast cpu and good battery on the Windows or Mac Os side.

What kind of writing? Short, bursty form filling etc or war and peace? 

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7 hours ago, RabbidEwok said:

What kind of writing? Short, bursty form filling etc or war and peace? 

Made solid and made with high quality hardware. More CPU focused rather than a rtx4080 GPU level of laptops. Thin and light and powerfull.

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15 minutes ago, Borgus Bohr said:

Made solid and made with high quality hardware. More CPU focused rather than a rtx4080 GPU level of laptops. Thin and light and powerfull.

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5 hours ago, Borgus Bohr said:

Made solid and made with high quality hardware. More CPU focused rather than a rtx4080 GPU level of laptops. Thin and light and powerfull.

I’m asking because different keyboards are better for different types of writing. You also really don’t need a powerful laptop for writing. 

 

A MacBook is the easy answer, which one depends on your budget. 

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If it's primarily for writing,  I'd look into M1 or M2 MacBook Air.

 

Which one to get depends on your budget

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On 10/15/2023 at 9:37 PM, Borgus Bohr said:


Any suggestions on a modern light and fast laptop, optimized for writing? Any Suggestions? Fast cpu and good battery on the Windows or Mac Os side.

I'll echo the MacBook Air recommendation. 13-inch if you prize portability, 15-inch if you want as much visual real estate as possible. Get it with 512GB or more storage if you can; you don't absolutely need more than 8GB of RAM for writing, but if it were me I'd spring for 16GB.

 

The Air is silent, lasts ages on battery and, importantly, doesn't really throttle down while unplugged. Toss in a good keyboard/trackpad combo and you'll probably enjoy writing.

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A comnodore 64 can be used for typing, what other tasks do you want?  Linux can run on very old systens, including i686 32-bit processors.  A single gig of menory is enough for lxqt or xfce desktop, and Firefox.

 

HP has a few laptops with 15+ hour battery runtime, and for outdoor use, I was going to link to the 750-nit chronebook, but even brighter is this HP dragonfly at over 1,270 nits!

 

That's getting close to double the brightness of my phone outside on auto (750 nits) and will be very easy to read outside.

 

https://www.laptopmag.com/news/i-review-laptops-for-a-living-and-this-is-the-brightest-screen-ive-ever-seen-goodbye-glare

 

It may drain the battery so you probably don't need it above 70% brightness, even in direct sunlight, but it gets brighter if you need it.  If you want to save the battery, consider an electro-phoretic e-ink screen, which reflects light, and also check out the new R-lcd monitors:  Start at about 25:10 for outside use.

 

And in tablet form

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Windows 11 will just force business to "recycle" "obscolete" hardware.  Microsoft definitely isn't bothered by this at all, and seems to want hardware produced just a few years ago to be considered obsolete.  They have also not shown any interest nor has any other company in a similar financial position, to help increase tech recycling whatsoever.  Windows 12 might be cloud-based and be a monthly or yearly fee.

 

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