Hey lemmings!
I’m looking to get a new laptop in the near future but I keep getting lost in the details of what is good versus what I’d need.
I’m not really a gamer and already have a console for most games, but would like something that can at least run something like league of legends.
I also would be doing some light video editing but even so I don’t think I’d need some top of the line cutting edge option.
So I thought I’d ask Lemmy for their thoughts on what’s a good general purpose/workish laptop in 2023!
This may be an unpopular opinion around here: but the MacBook Air M2 is a phenomenal laptop if you don’t rely on windows only applications.
I came here to say this. If you can afford it and are not insistent on using Windows, macs are impressively versatile computers. And yes you can play League of Legends on them (if you had said you wanted to play as many games as possible, I would have been hesitant to advise a mac; but just League of Legends is no problem), and iMovie, which comes for free with the computer, lets you do reasonably advanced video editing.
It is actually a popular opinion. I would have bought day 1 if I could have had a decent linux distro running on it. Unfortunately I find aqua (the Mac ui) extremely frustrating, and I prefer linux in general. But as hardware it is a great machine