Re: Up-to-date hardware (laptop) recommendations?

On 29/11/15 17:42, Roman Ovseitsev wrote:
> If you need 3 external monitors on top of the internal, without
> discrete GPU the only option is a Skylake based laptop. It can pull
> off up to 5 monitors through HDMI/DP according to the spec. AFAIK
> older architectures support only 3 monitors.
> However since it just got released only a couple months back, there
> probably not that many laptops to choose from yet. If any at all.
> Mobile CPUs with better GPU are still not released so most vendors
> probably waiting for them.
> As far as Linux support for Skylake there are still some issue which
> you might want to be aware of if you decide to go down that road:
> ACPI doesn't work with some motherboards. Not an issue though if you
> don't mind disabling it in the kernel. Graphics drivers work properly
> only starting with 4.3 kernel.
>
> As for the laptop, I've been using ThinkPad T 14" line for years and
> overall the build quality, Linux support, repairability, and port
> selection are rather good. Although I think the latest models have
> eSATA port removed and come with only 3 USB ports, but I haven't checked.
Actually, my latitude also doesn't have eSATA. I think USB3 is fast
enough to not really require eSATA any more.

Shachar

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