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Hi, I'm looking for a good laptop to run linux that has a touchscreen with a stylus to take math notes(ik I should be using latex or typst but im too lazy) and good battery life, preferably one that folds into tablet mode to make taking notes easier.

I'm not planning on doing any gaming or video editing on it, just web/notes/programming and potentially a windows VM for software that doesn't work on linux. I also want to try getting into some ricing :). I've been looking at the lenovo yoga 9i, it seems to be pretty good and I found some people that had good linux experiences with it. One thing that would be nice is an hdmi port which the yoga doesn't have as my job involves a lot of AV stuff, but I can just get an adapter.

Any other suggestions? I can probably spend like 1000$ on it but obviously less is better, I'll probably get it used/refurbished from ebay.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/33987303

I recently purchased a T480s and after taking it apart to do a badly-needed clean, half the screws inside are missing, e.g. no screw for SSD, only 1 for the battery, various ones for the connections etc.

If I buy a specific set for the T480s, they're like £35, so I'm thinking of buying a large generic set from ali - what sizes do I need though?

M2 x 3, M2 x 4? for both the normal and the 'fat head' shorter ones?

Are there any others?

Also, bonus question, the previous owner did something funky with the screen and the sides don't seem to be pushed in equally all the way around - can I simply just apply force and push the screen into its housing so the sides align up equally, or do I need to actually take it apart?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/33583149

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/47977475

Do laptops with recent AMD GPUs exist? I've spent an embarrassing amount of time today looking for them and pretty much failing...

I'm looking for such a device:

• 2-in-1 laptop, or at least a laptop with a touchscreen (optimally also with a stylus)
• 14 or 15 inch screen
• Good battery life (thus probably intel CPU/GPU) and lightweight
• Optimally not a thinkpad because I don't use the trackpoint and I prefer to tap the touchpad instead of clicking physical keys.

The candidates I'm currently interested in are lenovo yoga 7i 14/15 and asus zenbook 2-in-1s, but they all use OLED displays. For these devices is OLED a problem with linux? Mostly, does linux's software-only dimming make battery life worse? And are there ways to avoid burn-in risks? (I'm using wayland compositor niri). I heard that yoga 7i has IPS versions but they are not available in my region, and I'd like to avoid international shipping. And for this reason I would prefer to stick to mainstream brands like lenovo, dell, and asus.

On this laptop I'll mainly do note taking and coding with neovim (which is dark theme and shouldn't have much problem), video playing, video editing, running small LLM and image generation models (better have good GPU multithread performance), and writing latex documents (which has light backgrounds and is my main concern with OLED). Would OLED on linux be a viable option for daily driving for my case?

If OLED is a true concern, are there relatively new LCD 2-in-1 models with good linux support and battery life?