There is also TUXEDO Computers in Germany. I only heard good things about the company (I think n=2 though), however I never owned a notebook from them.
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Doing a quick currency conversion this one is about the same price in Canada with a 4070…
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We have had several of these in the lab and the students have really liked them…
This is CAD$… and is 32GB 4070 14th Gen Intel
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Which are rebranded Clevo’s?
From my (Nvidia) experience, the worst thing about powerhouse laptops under Linux is the switching between dedicated and integrated graphics. Not always smooth… Just built a desktop with AMD GPU only and have experienced no problems (yet).
Are there any laptop alternatives that use dedicated only?
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Could be 
several years back, IMHO they used Schenker - but possibly they are rebrands from something else as well 
(maybe they are even the same as Clevo?)
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If you can, opt for a laptop with LPDDR5X memory. The increased memory speed appears to be a driving factor for darktable performance in my testing, perhaps comparable to CPU and GPU speed.
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How stable is Linux with these video cards like a RTX 4070? and these new processors?
Personally, I prefer to follow the idea of those who told me to stay clear of the most recent hardware with linux mint, just in case. Lately I could not suspend the computer with Mint because of a Logitec LIFT mouse USB receiver, it’s always surprises and a lot of time spent on troubleshooting these things.
Sorry if it’s negative a bit…
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If you can use a newer kernel, I think its generally pretty good, since CPU support comes from the vendor, generally. For GPUs they can take a bit to get it all ironed out.
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May depend on the distro. Something fresh like Arch or Fedora should support new hardware better.
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Today I had a look at some 16 inch laptops at a local tech store and what I really realized that what’s important for me is weight, not so much battery power, because most gaming laptops with the more powerful gpus are really heavy… I will have electricity where I want to use it but I dont want the extra weight during the actual journey in my backpack.
16 inch seems really nice and large enough, while the actualy dimensions of the device are ok, so it does fit into a normal backpack.
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One consideration could be a smaller laptop with a portable external monitor.
Did a quick search on Geizhals, and this one actually looks interesting: ViewSonic VP16-OLED ab € 473,61 (2024) | Preisvergleich Geizhals Österreich (however it is not cheap)
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I just looked up the difference between the core i9 and core ultra 7, and apparently the core ultra 7 is better for photo editing and such, it uses less power, and it produces less heat. So the MSI seems to have the better specs afterall?
Does anybody happen to know on which processor type Rawtherapee performs better? I guess for darktable it does not matter that much because there it’s more the gpu.
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See if it shows up here:
I have not had good luck with MSI laptops and Linux in the past. I just bought a new Lenovo Legion 9, upgraded the internal SSD so I have a 1TB drive for the system and 3TB /data filesystem for data & images.
Fedora works great on it, there is an issue with onboard system sound/speakers not working but it’s a known issue and should be fixed soon.
It comes with 2 chargers, one is a huge brick with the standard Lenovo/thinkpad plug/connector and a travel charger that used a thunderbolt connector.
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Ive run Linux on the 17" LG Gram laptops in the past, they are ok, kinda light on specs but they are super light. Linux runs well on them
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I would not worry about a \pm30\% difference in any kind of spec. Once the laptop has a reasonable amount of RAM, CPU, and SSD, the user experience for me is dominated by form factor, screen viewing comfort, ergonomics, keyboard/touchpad comfort (BTW, not unlike a camera).
These days I try not to order laptops online if I can avoid it before trying it in person, at least a model of the same line that looks/feels similar.
Eg 16" per se does not say much because screens have different aspect ratios and bevel, of which I prefer 3–5mm (“zero bevel” screens are pretty fragile given the way I treat my laptops while travelling). I like the \ge 15" category mainly because it gives me a decent keyboard, maybe even with numpad keys I can rebind. I like when the hinge opens to at least 140^{\circ}, but ideally 180^{\circ}. LCD screens are very hard to evaluate based on spec, I had some which looked fabulous on spec but we did not become friends in the long run, and some which were second tier technology when I got them I ended up liking the laptop.
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What do you guys think about this one?
It’s not exactly new but not so expensive.
Another important question: how important is a non glare/matte display for you?
I think that is overkill for your pusposes. You pay for specs you do not need, with weight and battery life.
Regarding the other question: I would pay approx €100–150 more for a matte screen, everything else equal.
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Well, if I search for laptops with a 16 inch matte screen with dci-p3 color space and a proper gpu and max weight 2 kg, that’s the kind of laptop I get. Almost all of them have at least an rtx 4060. There is only the HP with the RTX 2000, but it has an oldish cpu and costs as much as the asian ones with better specs.
Besides, I dont think an RTX 4060 is overkill for darktable or vkdt.
The alternative would be building one myself.
And I don’t think that a proper cpu hurts RawTherapee performance…
What do you know about my purposes? I might expepriment with editing raw video with vkdt… I might also need a gpu with 6 gb of ram or more if I want to process huge images…
I might also need 64 gb of ram for images with dozens of layers in gimp/krita…
But I will try to search for a device with a weaker gpu.
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definitely matte!
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