What's the best laptop right now for installing Linux and maximising it to one charge per day, something like 6 to 8 hours of moderate use with docker, IDEs and that kind of stuff running?
Totally new to this but I did some research and I land upon a few routes as far as I can tell right now. Been looking around and checking out what people has been doing recently and eyeballing second hand devices. I personally have a razorblade 16 with me so I'm not gonna bother playing games on this device, the goal is a highly mobile device that I can take with me on the move for work.
- macbook air or pro, 13" or 14", m1 or m2 or soon m3 as asahi announced, I know any linux on it is going to drain a bit more power on it, but I hate macOS as much as windows thus we know what to try out next. I'm hoping It'll probably be 6 to 8 hours of real use battery. So I need your thoughts and if it is really a big tax on the battery. (I'm leaning on trying out m1 pro 14" cuz they have higher ram options)
- or take the compromise of using older generations of thinkpad, x1 carbon, T14s or T14 which will have less battery hours, I'm thinking potentially 4 to 6 hours could be less... and it definitely differ by generations and cpu chip, more importantly most of my locally sourced second hands are old power hungry intels, 11th to 13th gen cpu.
- or is this simply not viable and macbook with macOS is the only way.
If any of you have those setup or you have a different solution please let me know what your model is and how well it behave.
