Choosing a laptop with photography in mind

Been using the ASUS ZenBook UX305 for a few days now. The 1920x1080, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD version. I installed Linux Sabayon with KDE on it alongside the Windows 10 it came with. Both operating systems fly! Both boot in seconds. It’s completely silent, programs in both OSes run smoothly, KDE feels faster and is far more responsive than on my more powerful personal laptop. I’m typing this from Chrome with a bunch of tabs open, and VirtualBox with Windows XP and VB6 running in it on the other virtual desktop - no problems. There were no driver issues, after installing Sabayon it just worked. The power supply is tiny, it’s about the size of a tablet charger, so my laptop bag now weighs next to nothing. I haven’t calibrated the screen yet, but out-of-the-box the screen colors look far more similar to those of my personal laptop when I load the calibration curves into it than when I don’t load them.
I’m most certainly happy with it.

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