They all have severe drawbacks in some way. They even used the Elitebook brand to make cheap shit and now no one likes it. Gamers wanted the Omen, turned out to be shit.

I bet the thermals are horrible, the keyboard sucks and/or will break in a year or two, the battery life will be bad, the BIOS updates will cause problems with no way to revert, the drives may suddenly fail and Linux still won't work properly on them :D

$$$ but can be had for 40% off.

A good spec with the nice screen and discrete graphics is < $3k.

Upsides: Great for Ubuntu, everything just works. Screen is beautiful. Keyboard is brilliant.

Downsides: Can get hot. Battery life sucks. Still 11th gen - Tiger Lake.

previous gen cpu

only 16gig

pretty underwhelming to be honest