• I’ll buy used, so don’t want latest and greatest. It won’t be my main laptop.
  • to run linux obviously.
  • good battery life, light, not too small to use, but large enough to type on (obviously can do without numeric keypad). not too fragile!
  • I’ll be doing some light python work, perhaps some c/c++ but I’m not after a workhorse, just something for quickly fixing bugs, or making notes on
  • sub 200 GBP / 250USD I guess

I’d be interested in hearing recommendations, and also what to avoid!

  • catty@lemmy.worldOP
    1·
    15 hours ago

    So buy a shell of a device to then SSH into a computer I leave running 24/7? Got it. Forgot to say, I pay my own bills.

    • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
      11·
      14 hours ago

      You mean the power cost of a computer idling at home?

      I have 5 computers (beelink and nuc servers) at home rn, each idles at ~6 watts. That’s about 40 usd a year. One computer would be 8.5 usd per year.