I Took a Walk on the Dark Side...

Since many FPGA development tools aren't ready (or willing) to support ARM based processors, I decided it was time to take a look at the current Intel-based offerings in the laptop world and stumbled across the Dell XPS series of laptops that ship with Ubuntu 20.04 installed. So enjoy my first impressions of my first PC in many moons and the FPGA boards I'd recommend purchasing with a laptop like this to get started as an FPGA developer/engineer. As mentioned, find all of the installation tutorials I mentioned here: https://www.knitronics.com/install-gu... And all of the project tutorials I've created for these FPGA boards and more here: https://www.knitronics.com/project-tu... And the Dell XPS 13 I purchased: https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-... Specs of the XPS 13 I purchased: Processor - 12th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1250U (12 MB cache, 10 cores, 12 threads, up to 4.70 GHz Turbo) OS - Ubuntu® Linux® 20.04 LTS Memory - 32 GB, LPDDR5, 5200 MHz, integrated, dual-channel Storage - 1TB PCIe NVMe x2 Solid State Drive Onboard Display - 13.4", FHD+ 1920 x 1200, 60Hz, Non-Touch, Anti-Glare, 500 nit, InfinityEdge (because if I wanted a touchscreen, I'd just get a tablet) Color - Umber Website: https://www.knitronics.com IG: @knitronics_lab Twitter: @knitronics Hackster.io: https://www.hackster.io/whitney-knitter Video Production Method Media - http://methodmedia.nyc | @Method Media