Technology leader, thinker, maker. Based in San Francisco. Manager by day, still an old-school builder by night.
https://blog.herlein.com/ and https://emergingrobotics.ai/
I just got a Dell XPS 1530 - bigger than you probably want, but for me it's outstanding. 1920x1200 LCD, HDMI out, 4GB RAM, Core2 Duo, 320GB haard drive - for under $1500. A huge seling point for me was that it can be ordered with Ubuntu so it's fully linux compatable.