On Sunday 23 March 2025 05:44:57 pm Russell S. wrote: > Charles Curley <charlescur...@charlescurley.com> writes: > > > On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 08:37:58 +0100 > > lina <lina.lastn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Dear all, > >> > >> Which laptop option is friendly with Debian, > >> The purpose is related to work, not game. > >> > >> Mainly for computation, R and some bioinformatic analysis, > >> > >> Ideally at least > 16 cores, decent memory. > >> > >> Thanks, > > > > I took delivery of a Thinkpenguin laptop in December. > > https://thinkpenguin.com > > > > I don't know what you mean by "decent memory"; they offer up to 64 GiB, > > which I have. htop indicates that I am using about 5 GiB of that. htop > > indicates 12 cores, of which I rarely use all. This is running Bookworm > > with XFCE on it. > > > > Pre-sales support was excellent. Feel free to ask questions. You may > > get more answer than you wanted. > > I haven't heard of ThinkPenguin. Reading through their page a little bit, they > look pretty awesome. I hadn't either until I asked Charles where he bought the new system and he pointed me to them. Called them up after playing with the web site for a while, and got all of my questions answered in a very professional way, and I felt confident enough to go ahead and order the machine. Considering we're talking December here with the usual holiday shipping madness, it got here in pretty good time...
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