Hello! For work (where I’m compiling a big Rust monorepo in a loop), I’m on a Thinkpad T14 Gen 4 and it’s getting a bit annoying.

My only constraint is that I’d like a 13-14 inch device

The AI memory situation is probably to blame, but after sending a LLM fetch specs and GeekBench results, it seems that for sustained multicore performance, the only thing that comes close (within 10% but still lower) of a M5 MacBook Pro (currently ~3200 EUR), is the HP Elite G1a (ARM linux is OK), but its list price is much higher (up to 4900 EUR for 64G memory and 1TB disk) for arguably worse speakers and battery on top.

So right now it’s hard to justify not getting a MacBook and that makes me sad…

Is there a laptop you’re using right now that comes close enough to a MBP in long compilation jobs, but runs Linux and doesn’t somehow cost more ?

  • Moussx@programming.devOP
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    10 days ago

    I meant that I don’t care about battery life/speakers/screen, it’s only a tiebreaker if all other things (price, CPU sustained perf) are mostly equal.

    I missed the memory part indeed, going up to 64GB changes a lot, I haven’t found a HP g1a with ~48GB of memory which is what I think is the good amount for…

    …My budget which is 3000-3500 EUR

    Indeed I’m in France

    Thanks for those links, I knew GB was flawed (mostly because it’s user-provided data, if nothing else), but had no idea about alternatives