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I'm looking for a cheap laptop that will support LyX. I found a lenovo v14 82c6006 with CPU amd 3020e. Will it work, and would it be any different?

Hardware SSD and 16GB memory.

Ben
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    Not sure if your question falls within the scope of this website but when the laptop can run an OS then it will normally also be able to run Lyx. – Dr. Manuel Kuehner Jul 18 '23 at 11:47
  • What OS will you run? It is true that for macOS, we did see weird changes happen with the underlying changes due to the chip transition. Those are already ironed out for when the LyX 2.4.0 release comes. All this to say that it's not a crazy question; although the mac chip change thing was the only case where I saw something like this happen with respect to LyX. – scottkosty Jul 18 '23 at 12:08
  • I'm planning windows 10. So you're saying it will work exactly the same? – Ben Jul 18 '23 at 12:37
  • BTW, it will also support other languages (specifically hebrew)? – Ben Jul 18 '23 at 13:11
  • @Ben it appears it can support Hebrew if you use the xetex or xelatex engines, that comes under the settings somewhere (note: I have never used Lyx before!) https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/222755/273733 – JamesT Jul 18 '23 at 17:21
  • @Ben my best guess is that it will, but I have no specific knowledge about that processor. – scottkosty Jul 18 '23 at 20:43
  • No idea of how basic is really the 3020e, but LyX+LaTeX are not 3D games. For years they worked for me in prehistoric CPUs with ridiculously amounts of memory, so I guess that 16Gb with any modern CPU for a laptop should be more than enough. If it ran at snail speed with W10, I will try Linux (Debian) installing just what you really need. – Fran Jul 19 '23 at 07:43

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