What laptop would you recommend for XR development?

Question

I want to (learn and)develop XR applications for Google cardboard and Android devices using OpenXR(Monado) and OpenSceneGraph. What is the cheapest laptop that will support this development environment?BTW, why are Linux laptops so expensive?

MH15 · Accepted Answer

Something with a GPU if you are going to be doing AR/XR dev through Unity or another game engine. Also, 16gb RAM is a hard minimum, one of our research projects would silently fail on my 8gb machine when importing into Unity from Out Of Memory.

tentacleuno · Answer

> BTW, why are Linux laptops so expensive?I'm assuming it's a general business problem: they sell much less laptops than Dell etc., so they have to charge more to make up for employee / running costs.

sircastor · Answer

> BTW, why are Linux laptops so expensive?Maybe I&rsquo;m not understanding something - aren&rsquo;t all laptops Linux laptops?

What laptop would you recommend for XR development?

I want to (learn and)develop XR applications for Google cardboard and Android devices using OpenXR(Monado) and OpenSceneGraph. What is the cheapest laptop that will support this development environment?
BTW, why are Linux laptops so expensive?

Something with a GPU if you are going to be doing AR/XR dev through Unity or another game engine. Also, 16gb RAM is a hard minimum, one of our research projects would silently fail on my 8gb machine when importing into Unity from Out Of Memory.

> BTW, why are Linux laptops so expensive?
I'm assuming it's a general business problem: they sell much less laptops than Dell etc., so they have to charge more to make up for employee / running costs.

> BTW, why are Linux laptops so expensive?
Maybe I’m not understanding something - aren’t all laptops Linux laptops?