I’m looking for such a device:

  • 2-in-1 laptop, or at least a laptop with a touchscreen (optimally also with a stylus)
  • 14 or 15 inch screen
  • Good battery life (thus probably intel CPU/GPU) and lightweight
  • Optimally not a thinkpad because I don’t use the trackpoint and I prefer to tap the touchpad instead of clicking physical keys.

The candidates I’m currently interested in are lenovo yoga 7i 14/15 and asus zenbook 2-in-1s, but they all use OLED displays. For these devices is OLED a problem with linux? Mostly, does linux’s software-only dimming make battery life worse? And are there ways to avoid burn-in risks? (I’m using wayland compositor niri). I heard that yoga 7i has IPS versions but they are not available in my region, and I’d like to avoid international shipping. And for this reason I would prefer to stick to mainstream brands like lenovo, dell, and asus.

On this laptop I’ll mainly do note taking and coding with neovim (which is dark theme and shouldn’t have much problem), video playing, video editing, running small LLM and image generation models (better have good GPU multithread performance), and writing latex documents (which has light backgrounds and is my main concern with OLED). Would OLED on linux be a viable option for daily driving for my case?

If OLED is a true concern, are there relatively new LCD 2-in-1 models with good linux support and battery life?

  • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    5·
    4 days ago

    The biggest challenge atm is software that works well with the touchscreen, but I would reccomend looking into the Framework 12 (it is 12 inches so keep that in mind)

    • first_ad4972OP
      2·
      4 days ago

      I’d like to avoid international shipping and just stick to the bigger brands like lenovo, dell, and asus though. Also I’m mostly using the touchscreen/stylus with inkscape, excalidraw, and krita, app navigation will likely still mostly be done using the keyboard and touchpad

      • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        2·
        3 days ago

        Ive personally used a lenovo yoga (I think 6) and had an absolutely horrible experience, would not reccomend. Build quality is absolutely horrendous.

        • first_ad4972OP
          2·
          3 days ago

          Got a similar comment on reddit too, someone said it can break after one drop. I did some more research and it seems like all new 2-in-1’s are OLED now, so I might just look for laptops with a touchscreen. Do you happen to know a bit about the quality of lenovo yoga slim series? The one I’m thinking about buying is yoga slim 7i 15-inch aura edition.

          • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            3·
            3 days ago

            I know someone who owns a 7i, its apparently very good for light usage. By light usage I mean you basically cant drop it, you cant put strain on the hinges, you cant put it in a backpack with heavy items, and basically you have to baby it.

            • first_ad4972OP
              2·
              3 days ago

              Do you mean yoga 7i or yoga slim 7i? Slim is the one that doesn’t fold all the way back (maximum angle is 180 degrees) and still has a touchscreen but no stylus. Also how safe is it to sandwich the device between 2 soft-cover books?