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Recommendations for laptop brand to use with Ubuntu – fairly urgent.

Without going into detail I’ve had very serious health issues suddenly come to light. My current older laptop (see below) is having continuing display issues that are now also mouse issues (don’t get on with touch pads, never used touch sc...

Without going into detail I’ve had very serious health issues suddenly come to light.

My current older laptop (see below) is having continuing display issues that are now also mouse issues (don’t get on with touch pads, never used touch screen).

I don’t want deal with this in my current condition & want something that will work as reliably as possible.

I’d like something of similar capability but dependability is more important rn.
Budget not a big issue.

Thanks for reading.

inxi -F gives:

System:
Host: jango-HP-15-Notebook-PC Kernel: 5.15.0-67-lowlatency x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: GNOME 42.5 Distro: Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP 15 Notebook PC
v: 0975100000405F00001620180 serial:
Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 22CD v: 93.32 serial:
UEFI: Insyde v: F.42 date: 11/04/2015
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 25.0 Wh (99.2%) condition: 25.2/25.2 Wh (100.0%)
CPU:
Info: quad core model: AMD A8-6410 APU with AMD Radeon R5 Graphics bits: 64
type: MCP cache: L2: 2 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1036 min/max: 1000/2000 cores: 1: 1076 2: 998 3: 1071
4: 1000
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Mullins [Radeon R4/R5 Graphics] driver: radeon v: kernel
Device-2: Cheng Uei Precision Industry (Foxlink) Webcam type: USB
driver: uvcvideo
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 driver: X: loaded: ati,radeon
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa gpu: radeon resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: KABINI ( LLVM 15.0.6 DRM 2.50 5.15.0-67-lowlatency)
v: 4.5 Mesa 22.2.5
Audio:
Device-1: AMD Kabini HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
Device-2: AMD FCH Azalia driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-67-lowlatency running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8188EE Wireless Network Adapter driver: rtl8188ee
IF: wlo1 state: up mac: 90:48:9a:c2:a4:ef
Device-2: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet driver: r8169
IF: enp4s0 state: down mac: 6c:c2:17:e1:42:c2
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 59.29 GiB (6.4%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: HGST (Hitachi) model: HTS541010A9E680
size: 931.51 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 915.32 GiB used: 59.28 GiB (6.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 6.1 MiB (1.2%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 876 KiB (0.0%) file: /swapfile
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 36.1 C mobo: 20.0 C gpu: radeon temp: 35.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 252 Uptime: 1d 17h 12m Memory: 6.73 GiB used: 2.89 GiB (43.0%)
Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.13

& sudo lshw -C display gives:

*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Mullins [Radeon R4/R5 Graphics]
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
physical id: 1
bus info: pci@0000:00:01.0
logical name: /dev/fb0
version: 05
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom fb
configuration: depth=32 driver=radeon latency=0 resolution=1366,768
resources: irq:29 memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f0000000-f07fffff ioport:4000(size=256) memory:f0e00000-f0e3ffff memory:c0000-dffff

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