I am looking for a cheap, light, tough, relatively fast laptop to replace my decade-old lenovo. It will be my daily computer for browsing, documents and occasional photo editing. I will install eitherUbuntu or Mint. I am looking at thinkpad x13 gen 1. It looks like the processor has an impact on the way it will be running, with different performances between ARM AMD and Intel. Can I buy either one or I there a real compatibility issue with intel?

  • Eugenia@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 days ago

    You don’t really need a fast laptop for this, anything that goes over 10000 points on the Passmark CPU test, is enough (and with an integrated Intel cpu, if you want the best support for video codecs).

    In Europe, the cheapest way is to get a DELL that comes with Linux. They’re 99.9% compatible, with firmware updates supported via fwupd on linux, the only thing is hit or miss is palm rejection on the touchpad. Everything else works. In Greece these start at 600 euros with 16 GB of RAM, 750 euros for 32 GB of RAM. I bought one myself recently, with an intel cpu at 15k points on passmark. Plenty fast. Only thing that doesn’t work accelerated is Blender (it works in cpu mode only), as it requires non-integrated GPUs. Resolve works now with intel gpus on linux too, and so is kdenlive.

    • HenriVolney@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      3 days ago

      OK, thanks for the tip. I might buy a new laptop or no laptop at all (I’ve been battling for two hours a canon printer that won’t print anything but blank pages with my Ubuntu distro)…

      • Eugenia@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Which model canon exactly? I personally use an epson and it works out of the box.

        • HenriVolney@sh.itjust.worksOP
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          2 days ago

          It’s the LBP510dw. Ubuntu uses a generic driver that sends the printing command to the printer but only blank pages and/or one line of gibrish are printed. I installed CUPS but I get a “cups_handleerror” message printed upon switch on