What is a budget modern laptop with ergonomic keyboard to run Fedora on?
Define budget, and what does ergonomic mean to you for a laptop?
3-5 year old thinkpads are pretty nice and cheap typically. I got a T14 gen 3 with an i7 for $250 like 6 months ago.
ergonomic keyboard
Never heard of a modern laptop with an ergo keyboard. The shape tends to be in opposition to portability. I couldn’t even find a picture of one. And since it’s likely to be such a specialty item (if such a thing even exists), you’ll pay extra for it.
You should be able to buy anything with an AMD processor and discreet GPU (if you need the GPU part). If you’re unsure, go look at Framework or Starlab, check what they’re using, and find a laptop with similar specs.
sth at 200-250 is ok
What does ergonomic mean to you? Laptops typically are not so please explain.
Well that didn’t help at all. What makes that “ergonomic”?
In any case I needed a cheap laptop for a trip last year. While I could never really recommend anything HP I ended up having to buy something so I got a new $300 laptop, this one here: https://icecat.biz/us/p/hp/9r8t2ua/laptops-0197961991864-14-ep1063cl-118102191.html
Its an odd one with 12 gigs of ram and a sort of strange Intel cpu.
First thing I did was wipe windows and installed Fedora. Everything worked except the headphone jack which I didnt find out for a LONG time because I dont use it.
But Bluetooth, keyboard lighting, sleep, wireless, everything else worked flawlessly.
I ended up not returning it and continued to travel with it (for work) for several months. Its light weight, , thin enough, reasonably speedy for what it is, battery life is very good, and the keyboard is fine. I dont like the split up/down keys where each if half size. That is my only quibble.
When I got home I put in a cheap stick of ddr4 and replaced the one of the two sticks so now I have 24 gb ram. Which also was stupid simple. There is nothing that appears locked down, you can open it and do whatever you want.
Again I could never recommend HP. I am shocked they made something half decent. But here we are.
Nothing beats an old Thinkpad
I find the design to be a bit dated tbo
Of course. Not exactly an elegant beauty, and looks like a tank next to a MacBook, yet a total classic.
I was thinking a Vivobook
Those clearly do not fit in your budget…
A used Vivobook no?
I mean, I’ve got an old IdeaPad flex 4 running Fedora pretty well. As long as it has DDR4 and more than 4 GB of ram then you’ll be fine.
How is the keyboard?
it’s alright. I’m not sure if it fits within what you consider ergonomic but it’s a fairly decent laptop keyboard.
that’s a pretty bog standard laptop keyboard.
It is actually comfortable
I mean, yeah. Laptop keyboards are basically a solved science these days.
Do you have this laptop currently? You can coreboot it and install Fedora on it https://docs.mrchromebox.tech/docs/supported-devices.html
Iam afraid I will brake it tbh
They’re not too bad to work with, I did my grandma’s Chromebook a bit ago and did 2 last night after realizing I didn’t need a modded cable, just the battery trick. If you’d replace it anyway it doesn’t hurt to try!
I have to take the battery out right?
Hmm…, could you state/explain how the ASUS Chromebook is tangibly more ergonomic than other laptop keyboards beyond what they advertise on their website?
While modern ThinkPads can’t boast about their keyboards to the extent that their predecessors did, it’s undeniably one of the better options. As such, consider taking a look at this page and see if you find something you fancy. I’m aware that the page hasn’t been updated since last year. But, your budget dictates that it’s in your best interest to buy a used device anyways.
Nope, I don’t know if it is “ergonomic” but it’s comfortable
