Interesting to read this buyer’s guide to business laptops <https://www.computerworld.com/article/1553700/buyers-guide-to-business-laptops.html>. Chromebooks have long been popular for school use, but are also finding a place in certain business needs as well. But look at the highest end -- the “mobile workstations”, the most expensive machines: When it comes to mobile workstations, all the careful calculations for size, weight, and battery life are replaced with a singular focus on performance, particularly for graphics. This laptop class insists on all-out performance for anything from Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing (CAD/CAM) to graphics design to AI model training. Not your noddy Word/Excel jockeys, then. Furthermore: MacOS and Windows 11 dominate here, but there’s another alternative: some models, like Lenovo’s ThinkPad P16 Gen 2, offer Fedora or Ubuntu Linux as an option. Also note that of all the laptop categories, this one has most resisted the move to Windows 11, largely because some specialty software and drivers don’t support the new OS. The Eurocom Panther 5, for instance, is configurable with Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, or even older versions of Windows. Windows 10, or even older?? Really?? I wonder how the purveyors of that “specialty software” (no doubt proprietary) can offer quality support for their product on an obsolete, buggy OS whose owner washed their hands of it years ago. The Linux option, though: if they’re smart and paying attention to users making choices like the one offered by Lenovo, they’ll move their software to running under that, and put an end to those long-standing Windows-endemic software headaches.