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  • Dual booting is more about hard drive space. This is a fairly good write up on one way to do it - basically you get a Windows laptop, and then shrink the partition (say instead of 100% of the 512gb storage, you make Windows take up 50%) and install Linux along side the Windows operating system.

    Every time you start the laptop, you’ll then have the option to boot into Windows or Linux.



  • pezhore@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlWhat laptop should I purchase?
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    1 year ago

    If you’re in the US, check out EPC’s Online Store. They’re an electronics recycler and they sell a ton of used electronics.

    I’ve purchased three Lenovo micro PCs (now running my homelab Proxmox cluster) and a micro tower that is a dedicated Plex transcoder.

    They have a ton of decent, 3 year old systems that would meet your needs:

    1. they’re cheap
    2. most all come with windows
    3. Linux can more than likely be easily dual booted.

    They even have some super beefy Xenon laptops.

    Edit: this MSI laptop pretty much perfectly fits your reqs.