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My father has a fw 16" per my suggestion, and I want to get one as well, but they don't offer financing and are fucking expensive. Like shit the bed, last time I looked the diy version was like $2,300 for the upgraded amd cpu and gpu but with no ram, storage... I'm not made of money π«
But the joke is that normies have no idea what Linux is and even less of a clue about where to get machines that are made for it.
Preorders for the FW12 just went up at a little under $800, but yeah computers (especially good ones) aren't cheap :p
you could always buy a decade old $150 thinkpad and put arch on it, provided you also have programming socks and a blahaj ;p
but yeah I get it, I think the op comment wasn't really thinking about the "Normie's" when writing their comment, and tbf without people braving the gamble that used to be putting Linux on windows hardware, we probably wouldn't have options like the framework or tuxedo today
:p I've got laptops, most recently a ThinkPad X13(s? I don't remember) Gen 2, but I want the gpu so I can retire/repurpose my Acer Predator. The hardware is solid and still doing well, but the execution of basically everything else is horrible. And it weighs several pounds, I can use it as a weapon with ease. It was 1 of 2 (after tons of research) laptops at the time with both cpu and gpu from amd, 5/6 years ago now. MSRP was $2700 if I remember right, but I got it for $1400 which is about what it was worth.
I don't have stripey socks or a π¦ :( but I do have a π― that's good for cuddling :3
π― is good too :3
I got my own RAM and storage and skipped the GPU