I’d go Lenovo over Dell

If you’re willing to buy from Brother directly they have a refurbished site.

Orca Slicer, 100%

The attitude in the Phoronix comments is about what I expected. But good content!

Libertarian is just code for Republican who is ok with Pot

Can your system handle a 970 or Radeon 5700XT? I have no idea if I’m breaking the rules by offering this, but they’re just sitting around and would be happy to send you one.

When I’ve seen this come up before, I think the AI Max needs soldered RAM due to latency that socketed RAM introduces. There were some older post where an AMD engineer even hopped in saying they tested but it had a big impact on performance.

Fedora for example

https://www.dellrefurbished.com/

Check support but can score some great deals on business-class laptops here. They’re machines that are coming off lease from Dell Financial Services.