Gadgets

The large screen matters more to me than portability, since it mostly lives on a desk. Nothing about it is exotic, which is the point.

12 cores and 16 threads, boosting to 4.5 GHz. The efficiency cores keep background builds from making the rest of the system feel sluggish.

Enough for a dev server, a Postgres container and a browser at once. This is the first thing I would upgrade.

The integrated GPU drives the desktop so the discrete card stays idle. The RTX 2050 is there for CUDA work rather than for games.

Model MZVL4512HBLU. Fast enough that npm installs and Docker pulls are network-bound, never disk-bound.

Editor on the external monitor, terminal and browser on the laptop panel. Going back to one screen costs me more than I expect every time.

Keyboard, mouse and headphones — fill these in.

Ubuntu exposes a charge threshold at /sys/class/power_supply/BAT1/charge_control_end_threshold. The machine is plugged in most of the time, and holding a lithium cell at full charge all day is the fastest way to wear it out, so it sits at 80% and only charges to full before I work away from a desk.