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Howardlong:
On my second LG Gram now, first was a 10th gen i7 1065g7 17” with 40GB RAM and two 2TB NVMe drives.

Newer one, a 16” i7 1260p is 32GB with a 4TB NVMe.

Super lightweight, but as a result they do thermal throttle under heavy load, but both have a decent selection of ports.

I did go through a few 2-in-1s before these, including a 10th gen i7 1065g7 XPS13 2in1 with 32GB & 2TB, and before that an 8th gen ZBook G5 x360 i7 8850H with 64GB & two 2TB in RAID 0. The XPS screen real estate was too little for me, but at least you could put it on an airline tray table unlike the LG Grams I have. The ZBook while super powerful is just too heavy for lugging about, but the 15.6” 4k screen is gorgeous.

The daily drivers for travel/work for the past three years have been the LG Grams, and for a commute with a small table area or lap use I have also take a 10” GPD notebook with a 6800U and 32GB RAM plus 2TB NVMe.

I’ve come to realise there’s no one single solution, finding that 2in1s are too much of a compromise in terms of weight penalty and crippled use in tablet model
SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: coppice on July 29, 2023, 06:37:04 pm ---There are lots notebook computers which work well for home or light portable use, but for the last few years if you wanted something to carry around for business day in and day out the choice has been a Thinkpad or a Dell Latitude. After 20 years of owning the Thinkpad brand, and keeping it like it was in the IBM days, Lenovo seems to have suddenly trashed it. The newest machines feel cheap and flimsy, and IT people are complaining about absurd failure rates. So, how is Dell doing? What other choices currently make sense?

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Apple? ;D
Warhawk:

--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on August 21, 2023, 02:05:02 am ---
--- Quote from: coppice on July 29, 2023, 06:37:04 pm ---There are lots notebook computers which work well for home or light portable use, but for the last few years if you wanted something to carry around for business day in and day out the choice has been a Thinkpad or a Dell Latitude. After 20 years of owning the Thinkpad brand, and keeping it like it was in the IBM days, Lenovo seems to have suddenly trashed it. The newest machines feel cheap and flimsy, and IT people are complaining about absurd failure rates. So, how is Dell doing? What other choices currently make sense?

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Apple? ;D

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Just for information, our company switched from Dell to HP to now switch to Thinkpads... They all suck in their own way.
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