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I think you'd have to buy a really cheap laptop to match the relatively poor build/reliability of Apple laptops. I can't help you there I'm afraid, but this man could shed some light on the issues...
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I've known Louis for years. I used to do repair. I rarely repair macbooks these days, as there are plenty of other services now. There's a few hurdles, like the SMC. You can get the bare processor, as it isn't made by Apple, but you can't get the firmware. You need a Raspberry Pi, a bunch of clip-on adapters and a working SMC from the same macbook to replace an SMC. And these do fail quite a lot.
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On a serious note, instead of a rucksack full of dongles users could carry a powerbank. I personally would like to see laptop manufacturers move away from the slimline design ethos back to bulky, but with modern electronics affording an enormous (relatively speaking) battery.
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Yes!
I recently came across the newest HP laptop. 4.4 GHz turbo, 4 TB SSD, 32 GB ram, under 2.000$, very square, not rouded and flat. Looks nice.
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One of the Thinkpads has a hot swappable battery, giving 17 hours of life with the internal + 6 cell internal/plugin one. With another battery you are over 24 hours. Or something like a near-invincible Getac B300 with a 30 hour battery life.
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I'm considering those too. But maybe it would be an old one. With a puck. I had one, around 2000, as my Windows machine, when they still were made by IBM. Very sturdy machines. And since there are several upgrade kits available, it would be cheap to pick up an old one and give it a new life.
But I already have a pre 2000 Panasonic Toughbook CF28. Used to be a 486. There's an RPi 3 in there now, running Kali.
The one above isn't mine. Mine is even more beaten up. Very cyberpunk
Anyhow, I need real Gbit ethernet. USB-C won't do. Period. Can't put it in promiscuous mode, can't netboot, doesn't work through a hub, etc. etc.