Asklemmy

45236 readers

1770 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
[email protected]: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

What is a good general purpose laptop on the market right now? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

35 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Hey lemmings!

I'm looking to get a new laptop in the near future but I keep getting lost in the details of what is good versus what I'd need.

I'm not really a gamer and already have a console for most games, but would like something that can at least run something like league of legends.

I also would be doing some light video editing but even so I don't think I'd need some top of the line cutting edge option.

So I thought I'd ask Lemmy for their thoughts on what's a good general purpose/workish laptop in 2023!

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This may be an unpopular opinion around here: but the MacBook Air M2 is a phenomenal laptop if you don’t rely on windows only applications.

[–] ritswd 1 points 2 years ago

I came here to say this. If you can afford it and are not insistent on using Windows, macs are impressively versatile computers. And yes you can play League of Legends on them (if you had said you wanted to play as many games as possible, I would have been hesitant to advise a mac; but just League of Legends is no problem), and iMovie, which comes for free with the computer, lets you do reasonably advanced video editing.

[–] Zeth0s 1 points 2 years ago

It is actually a popular opinion. I would have bought day 1 if I could have had a decent linux distro running on it. Unfortunately I find aqua (the Mac ui) extremely frustrating, and I prefer linux in general. But as hardware it is a great machine