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Good price laptops with good build quality and lightweight? [US] (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by cyclohexane@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Can anyone recommend cheap laptops that have good build quality and see lightweight?

I aim to use it for programming, but I connect to my desktop for most hefty work so it doesn't need to have solid performance. 8 GB RAM, 256 GB storage are enough for me. a lower grade CPU would still be good; a i3 that's 6 cores is enough.

What's really important to me is build quality, especially the keyboard. I also don't want it to be big. 13" would be enough, but not too picky here.

Any recommendations? And are there any communities that are better to ask this in?

Budget: I am hoping to pay $400 or less, but willing to pay $1000 or even more if it's justified or the value is worthwhile

OS: Linux. I can install it myself.

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[–] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Theyre not nearly as bad as the butterfly keyboards they used in previous models. They went with a scissor switch style with a ~1.0-1.1mm key travel here.

Ive owned a few mechy keyboards and older thinkpads, but even so, ive never thought that the m1 macbook air keyboard is terrible.

I can understand if its a deal breaker for some though.

[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

To be fair the butterfly keyboard was a really low bar to to clear