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Laptop models
- MacBook Pro (15 in w/ Touch Bar 2.9GHZ i9, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD)
- Dan G : this is the most common option, and gives you Microsoft Office natively + a UNIX-like development environment
- Matt H: I have the touch bar version of the MBP. If you use it primarily as a desktop with an external keyboard/mouse, it (the touchbar and USB-C) matters less, besides the usual mac adapter hurdles.
- MacBook Pro, pre-touch-bar
- Shreyas C: I like the old Macbook Pro's (pre touch bar)
- Matt H: The older MBP is limited in what external monitor resolutions it supports.
- Lenovo X1 Carbon (Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon - 14" - Core i7 8650U - 16 GB RAM - 1 TB SSD)
- Dan G: This is basically just me, but I do like the weight and keyboard, and existence of more standard ports than a new Mac.
- Lenovo X270
- You-wei Cheah: Another happy Lenovo user. It allows me to hot swap batteries
- Dell XPS (both 13" and 15")
- Fernando P. I've heard very good things about the Dell XPS (both 13" and 15"), one of my postdocs has it.
OS and other things
- Fernando P: And honestly now with the WSL stuff in Windows, it's a lot closer to the Mac experience than before in Windows - it's realistic to do native linux work without a VM while having the Window GUI, Office, hardware support, etc. It's not as seamless as the Mac but getting there...
- Dan G: I run Linux on (my Lenovo X1) with VMWare for Windows which can be a pain but does work.
- Reinhard G: I like my lenovo linux laptop but I do not recommend getting a dedicated graphics card. Mine has so many driver issues that it has limitations. I cannot use the hibernate or standby function for example. If you do the display goes dark and nothing you do fixes this until a reboot (which means loosing all you data that you hibernated for). I had emailed Nvida about this and they gave the recommendation try this other driver but I dont want to mess anymore with a system that is my daily driver.
