I have been buying the lowest priced HP/Acer/ASUS that has the features I want. I don't know that there is much difference between them, and I am not sure who the real maker/designed of the laptop is. See the ODM section on this page; From that it becomes clear you have zero idea who really made/designed the product and how good of a job they did. So pick the price and features that you want and ignore the Brand as the brand seems to matter little anymore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laptop_brands_and_manufacturers On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 10:36 AM bruce <badouglas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi George. > > The laptop in question would be one of the AMD 5 ryzen 6/10 core > systems from the hp site. > > I'd add mem/1TB internal drive as well. > > thanks for your comments! > > On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 10:05 AM George N. White III <gnwiii@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 10:21 PM bruce <badouglas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> Hi. > >> > >> Looking at getting another laptop. > >> > >> Any thoughts on completely transferring as well as updating the data > >> on the current drive to the new laptop. > > > > > > I populate my home directory on a new machine from the backup of the old machine. In the past I used NFS, but now my backups are on USB drives. It > > Is helpful to have the old machine in working order to troubleshoot things > > that break on the new system (usually my own programs that use a library that > > is no longer available from distros — a hint that I need to find a newer library. > >> > >> > >> Assume I might be dealing with a diff flavor of linux. I'm not sure > >> what the new laptop will have. > >> > >> I don't want bleeding edge fedora.. (unless I change my mind). > >> > >> I don't want RHEL/centos -- I'd like to be newer. > >> > >> So, give me your thoughts as well as best practice that you use for > >> this kind of process... > > > > > > I find there are often issues with newer systems. At present, businesses are > > dumping windows systems that won’t run Win11, so you can find higher end > > laptops 2 or 3 years old at bargain prices. Many are excellent linux platforms, > > but you need to check on linux-hardware.org. There are often issues with display brightness, sound, or wifi. I deal with by updating the wifi and using a USB > > sound dongle or a high end USB sound device. > > > > Laptops this age generally allow you to upgrade internal wifi, RAM, and SSD. If > > you are considering a big-name laptop with linux pre-installed, you may be able to > > check the specs at linux-hardware.org. > > > > -- > > George N. White III > > > > _______________________________________________ > > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
