What's a good work laptop?

[Lemurakk]

I'm a backend developer and fucking despise docker so it would need to have a reasonable amount of RAM and a strong cpu, also the less gaming LEDs it has, the better. Was considering a thinkpad since i've had pretty good experiences with those ones.

 

[Saddam Hussain Obama]

THINKPAD NIGGA cybermonday passed but christmas deals coming up

 

[SIGSEGV]

Was considering a thinkpad

You already know what the right answer is, then.

 

[libRT]

There is none, you're going to eat shit no matter what you pick.

 

[glow]

The last few laptops I've had have had issues with cooling when doing some of the dev work I do, so these days I'm looking at low-powered and portable laptops and using cloud instances for development. So, I run IntelliJ locally but I develop and test on a cloud instance. I'm not fully there yet but I think this is what the future of development looks like, especially AI and big data related work. You will own nothing and you will be happy.

Before you say "but-but-but AWS is expensive", you can still get oldschool dedicated servers and VPSes. Hetzner never went away.