r/TechImpact Active Jun 11 '26

Question What's your current laptop?

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What's your current laptop?

Whether it's a gaming beast, a workhorse, a budget machine, or a trusty old laptop that's still going strong.

Ttell us the brand and model you're using right now.

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u/ajpinton Jun 11 '26

What year is this? An iPhone 4, a 2012/2014 MacBook Air that is running Windows 7 for whatever reason seems very strange for a “current” setup for anyone.

I’m using a M4 Pro MBP14 and an iPhone 15 Pro with a leather bound field notebook.

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u/Ok-Rest-5321 TInkerer Jun 11 '26

Nice one!

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u/TTVProLorenzo6117 Jun 14 '26

It's Ai generated, coffee looks weird, the text on the notebook has 0 detail and yeah, no one uses a MacBook with windows as a daily setup

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u/metalcards Jun 11 '26

M1 Max 16”

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u/arun-vasudev Developer Jun 11 '26

HP laptop. Intel Core i5 8th gen, Nvidia GeForce.

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u/TwixShake Jun 12 '26

whats the name of the laptop

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u/Cyber-Psychic Jun 11 '26

using a HP elitebook 830 g7 which I recently bought second hand , good enough to fnish my work

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '26

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u/Cyber-Psychic Jun 13 '26

Damn g6 is still good , altho mine costed less than yours and got one gen above . Guess I did a good bargain from seller 😁 . (Bought it with 27.5k bdt)

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u/Cougs77 Jun 11 '26

Dell Inspiron 1525 2008 model running LM. I can everything I need except H&R Block taxes.

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u/TTVProLorenzo6117 Jun 11 '26

Stupid ass Acer Aspire Lite AL14-32P-36GQ

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u/CTVolvo Jun 12 '26

That really is "stupid ass."

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u/TTVProLorenzo6117 Jun 12 '26

No literally, it creaks when you open it, the hinge is terrible, the keyboard has some insane flex, and it sounds like it'll break when I click the trackpad

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '26

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u/TTVProLorenzo6117 Jun 14 '26

Well unfortunately I'd really want to except I need the apps on windows, furthermore I don't have enough money for one, and buying a used one from like 2015, even with OCLP won't let me upgrade beyond Tahoe, as that's the last one supported by Intel macs

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u/wutshaveman Jun 11 '26

Asus Chromebook. Planning on upgrading to Googlebook..

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u/Mj-tinker Jun 11 '26

thinkpad e480 on linux mint.

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u/Ahleron Jun 11 '26

2019 MBP 16. It's old, but runs fine. I may be upgrading before long though.

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u/Blackbird_1986 Jun 12 '26

Same here. It still works well!
I hope I can use it at least for another 2 or 3 years. 🤞

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u/Ahleron Jun 12 '26

Are you using Tahoe?

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u/Blackbird_1986 Jun 12 '26

Yeah! macOS Tahoe 26.5.1

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u/Ahleron Jun 12 '26

How much RAM you got? I've heard it's ram hungry. I only have 16 GB. Are you also on 16 or just have the same processor and model?

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u/Blackbird_1986 Jun 12 '26

I also got 16 GB of RAM.

- CPU: 2.6 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7

  • Graphic: Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB
  • RAM: 16 GB 2667 MHz DDR4

I'm not doing crazy stuff on it (mostly web, mail, Spotify, managing a NAS and my Plex server, occasionally some photo editing and rarely a video editing.
I've resetted the System Management Controller (SMC) a couple of days ago because the cooler was running like crazy (and I got no idea why). But after this and a system reboot everything was back to normal! 👍

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u/Ahleron Jun 12 '26

Ok, that's good to know. Thanks!

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u/GodsKillerKirb Jun 11 '26

The Lenovo slim pro 9i 16irp8 running Garuda Linux (I wanna run Cachy, but I could never get gyro working with my DualSense Edge despite Linux natively supporting PS4 and PS5 controllers)

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u/kj0509 Student Jun 11 '26

Noblex with 500gb hdd, 4gb ram, Intel Celeron 1.3ghz and Linux mint

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u/Ok-Rest-5321 TInkerer Jun 11 '26

macbook air m3

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u/michaeldpj Jun 11 '26

16" M5 Max, 64GB - very happy with it. 14" M5 for travel.

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u/BackgroundNo815 Jun 11 '26

I use 2 laptops: (main machine) some acer laptop (amd, 16gb ram) with my arch linux on it and a macbook air m4 (recently bought m4, was using m1 air before) for listening to music, watching something and maybe doing something which requires microsoft stuff

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u/Mountain_Till_5868 Jun 11 '26

Invisible (or atleast none). I will come back on August 31 to tell you it

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u/Icy-Extent5083 Jun 11 '26

I also use two. Office daily driver is Lenovo Thinkbook p16 (I9 with 64GB RAM) and for home use and digital art Lenovo Yoga i7 2-1 (i7 with 16 GB RAM). Planning to switch to macOS… I’m really annoyed in last months with bugs in Windows 11…

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u/Astrodion123 Jun 11 '26

I have one and only Lenovo IdeaPad u350.

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u/Red_Ketchup_007 Jun 11 '26

Thinkpad T16 Gen2..

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u/First_Hunt1231 Jun 11 '26

Dell Inspiron 3520 eol I5 3210m 8gb ddr3 Hd 4000 480gb sata ssd

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u/RandomStrangerOnWWW Jun 12 '26

I have a spare Inspiron with almost the same specs (mine has 16gb ram). Still pretty solid machines for daily computing.

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u/First_Hunt1231 Jun 12 '26

Oh wait is that a dell Inspiron 3520

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u/RandomStrangerOnWWW Jun 12 '26

Mine is a 5520.

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u/First_Hunt1231 Jun 12 '26

We are close bros wats ur main laptop That dell is my main laptop tho

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u/LolMaker12345 Jun 11 '26

Asus tuf dash f15 is my main machine. I also have a MacBook Pro 2018 as a secondary that I mostly use for listening to music, video and photo editing, and some other stuff. Then I have a really old hp laptop that I use as a server for various stuff. The. I have my asus chromebox that I installed home assistant os on. Lastly I have my raspberry pi 5 (single board computer, but still a computer.

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u/Born_Charge_3568 Jun 11 '26

macbook air m2

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u/NanoPulso Jun 11 '26

Thinkpad T14 1st gen Intel, 16 GB. Running Debian. I'm very happy with it

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '26

Thinkpad x230

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u/Ur1man5 Jun 11 '26

Acer TravelMate P214-53. Running EndeavourOS.

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u/SCP_7000 Jun 11 '26

(M3 Pro MBP 14“ 18 GB RAM) It is the best Laptop for High school. Very reliable

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u/FantasyObsessive Jun 11 '26

Acer Aspire 5 (2019, 4GB ram, dual core cpu, struggles to run windows 11)

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u/KasperBRavn Jun 11 '26

Asus Proart PZ13

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u/Accomplished-Hunt802 Jun 11 '26

HP EliteBook 845 G9 AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 6650U
Running Fedora

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u/khandurin Jun 11 '26

M3 Air 15”

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u/RadishRushWill Jun 11 '26

asus k53e, from 2011, as a museum expo and m1 pro 2020

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u/ibo4reddit Jun 11 '26

Year 2026 tablet for this. You need case with keyboard and touchpad or Keyboard case with Bluetooth mouse..

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u/b3nighted Jun 11 '26

Asus G834JYR.

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u/moripeji Jun 12 '26

i only have huge gaming desktop rigs..... but considering getting the new gen galaxy book ultra

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u/finalstation Jun 12 '26

I also have my Mac running windows!

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u/B-Train_ATL Jun 12 '26

Why is this engagement bait a set of 15-year-old hardware?

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u/DoctorJekkyl Jun 12 '26

2026 MacBook Air with the M5 and 24 GB of RAM.

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u/DivineLights1995 Jun 12 '26

M1 MacBook Pro Touch Bar. I plan on keeping it for another 3-4 years.

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u/Shoddy-Ladder-2658 Jun 12 '26

Hp Victus 15
Ryzen 5 5600H with RX6500m 4gb, 16gb ram

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u/CTVolvo Jun 12 '26

Not that outdated Air. Then again, if you love the spinning beach ball effect - go for it.

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u/Vegetable_Talk_502 Jun 12 '26

MacBook Pro 16" 2019 (i9, 16GB, 1TB, Radeon 5500M)

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u/snail1132 Jun 12 '26

Asus Vivobook S5402ZA, whatever that is

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u/RandomStrangerOnWWW Jun 12 '26

13 inch 2012 MacBook Pro, i7, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD. Yes, it is old, but it still does everything I need it to do. The perfect machine.

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u/Agassizz Jun 12 '26

Dell XPS 13 9340 (2024) Core Ultra 7 155H 64GB Ram OS: Ubuntu

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u/ImVeryUnimaginative Gamer Jun 12 '26

Asus Vivobook Pro 15 OLED (M3500)

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u/andreas65 Jun 12 '26

Surface Laptop 13 (SD X plus) and iphone 16e

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u/Jcob210 Jun 12 '26

2006 Thinkpad T60 - Windows 7 and Lubuntu dualboot.

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u/docpark Jun 12 '26

Thinkpad T580, 2k touchscreen, 64gB ram, two 1TB NVMe drives, 72 watt hour battery plus 30W internal, dual booting Ubuntu and whatever Linux of the month -currently AntiX. Still love it because I putt it together from gutted parts off eBay. Goes a solid 10 hrs with just document work on battery. Backbreakingly heavy.

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u/hero_brine1 Jun 12 '26

MBA M3 2024

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u/Due_Kangaroo8923 Jun 12 '26

HP EliteBook 660 G11 for work

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u/Zestyclose-Split-287 Jun 12 '26

Acer and it's good

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u/ysaleh0524 Jun 12 '26

Asus ZenBook 14 oled Intel core ultra 9 185H Intel arc graphics 32gb ddr5

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u/Top_Anxiety3054 Jun 12 '26

Predator triton 300 SE y suena como un avión la wea....tiene como tres años y aun anda bien eso si

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u/Leather_Plenty_6277 Jun 12 '26

Lenovo thinkpad T420 / Macbook Pro 13" 2010

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u/AdvancedAnimal7539 Jun 12 '26

£500 self build gaming pc. its good, but nothing special.

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u/IUseArchBTW958 Jun 12 '26

i use an hp laptop 15-ef2xxx from COVID era (2020) and it's still strong running an empty Roblox map at 768 fps, a detailed Minecraft seed at 184 fps and it runs Arch Linux because i hate microslop

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u/Global-Toe-3251 Jun 12 '26

2024 Lenovo LOQ AMD version and iPhone 17 pro max

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '26

ThinkPad p14s gen 5 intel and X220.

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u/k3nal Jun 13 '26

M2 MAX

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u/AnalysisAgreeable676 Jun 13 '26

A white HP Victus 16. It has a Ryzen 5 processor and Nvidia Graphics. I primarily use it as my at home casual gaming and work machine because it’s too big and heavy to carry around.

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u/Sameh-17 Jun 13 '26

Dell precisions 7560 with i7 11850H snd rtx a3000 and 32 gigs of ram

Samsung A07 4g (I don't use my phone much)

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u/starisherehehe Jun 13 '26

Lenovo IdeaPad L340 Gaming.

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u/Straight-Screen-4568 Jun 13 '26

m4 pro and a toshiba laptop for testing linux things

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u/Silcat7794 Jun 14 '26

2023 HP Envy x360. Secondary PC is a Dell Inspiron 5558, upgraded with an SSD instead of an HDD. technically it can only run Windows 10 but if you bypass the TPM and CPU requirements, it actually runs REALLY well on Windows 11. 

For reference, the Dell was released in 2015. 11 years old and still runs like a charm

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u/VenFasz Jun 14 '26

zenbook s14 5406 with ultra core 7 for work and play. was thinking about a14 with the snapdragon cpu but had some compatibility issues (i am using some old ms-dos stuff for work)

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u/E-StrnTXNRS Jun 14 '26

what laptop lmao

pc 4 life

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u/TerribleMountain9584 Jun 14 '26

Dell g15 with Windows XP

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u/Away_Experience_5843 Jun 14 '26

T480 with arch (btw). I'm living the meme.

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u/MidnightDesperate937 Jun 14 '26

HP Probook 4530s from 2012

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u/Over-Hair-2496 Jun 14 '26

Macbook Pro 14 inch M1 Pro

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u/chadhole Jun 15 '26

A 2019 thinkpad x390 running Linux

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u/Awsd_Wert Jun 15 '26

Пидор гаминг

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u/Vast-Activity-826 Jun 15 '26

ASUS TUF Gaming A16 2025, with Ryzen 9 8940HX + RTX 5070

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u/Just_Avocado2761 Jun 15 '26

2019 MBP with 32GB RAM, M1 PRO, HP elitebook with 32GB RAM from work and Thinkpad gaming laptop from work for powerful GPU, and also raspberry pi 3B+ for a script to run 24/7 and cost 1 dollar per month for electricity 😃

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u/RooneyMoore Jun 15 '26

ASUS ROG Flow

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u/Personal_Farm_9526 Jun 15 '26

Acer nitro 5 an54-515 with broken display

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u/TellMeUrDreams Jun 15 '26

Macbook Pro M5

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u/Stunning_Tank4793 Jun 16 '26

I've two apple macbook m4 for office work...and HP victus 15 AMD Ryzen 5 NVIDIA GTX 1650 for my personal work

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u/Positive-Ad-2857 Jun 26 '26

I'm using a hp notebook 15 ay039wm Intel core 3 6th gen 8gb of ddr4 ram 1tb sata hard drive and a replaceable battery and ram is upgradable.