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Laptop recommendation for a cs student under $600 or in India 50,000 INR (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Well i started my B tech course this year, I am looking for a laptop for my use case. I am using linux as a main os for 3 years.

The laptop which i currently use is a Dell Inspiron N5110. Its a pretty old machine so i am currently looking for an upgrade.

Things which I do :

Read documents
Watch videos and listen to music
Light coding
Tinker with almost everything
Try new software if i can.

I REALLY need a a laptop with good cooling and battery life like 5 hours is fine.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Search on Flipkart, there's a few good laptops there. Don't know if they are full Linux compatible.

Take a look at this MSI Core i5 12th Gen - (16 GB/512 GB SSD/Windows 11 Home/4 GB Graphics/Arc A370M Intel ARC/144 Hz) Thin GF63 12HW-012IN Gaming Laptop on Flipkart

With points and a 1000 off coupon it comes in your budget.

I think you need to do something to make the GPU drivers work. See this reddit thread.

Try running Linux os live usb on it and see if everything works. If you use Linux Mint, i think you need to install kernel 6.2 since it's still on 5.xx kernel now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well the point is it should be linux compatible and I don't game so it is an overkill.