i recently picked up one and love it. These thinkpads are also flooding ebay so some with great specs can be had for less than the $238 newegg is asking for. Just gotta look around.
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cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
You could get a refurbished Thinkpad. They are made for business use and tend to be more reliable than the super slim laptops and they work great with Linux. Newegg has a refurbished T480 for $238. It’s pretty nice and has a very long battery life if you get the extended battery pack.
The mini PCs are also nice if you don’t need something portable. They are more upgradable than a laptop.
JJGadget@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Stapling9851@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Ya see, I have no clue which models to be looking for. Surely some are better than others or more sought out than others, so I don’t really even know which is which. Perhaps you do? Or did you just pick a random model that fit the specs you wanted?
tomatobeard@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m replying from my T480 that I really love. I put Fedora on it and never have any issues. Biggest downsides in my opinion are bad speakers and display brightness doesn’t go very high (hard to work on it outside, for instance). Otherwise, super easy to upgrade and cheap to get parts for. Grabbed a big battery off Amazon and it lasts all day for me.
Stapling9851@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Thinkpads seem to have such a huge following, so there must be a reason…I had one briefly but lost it due to unfortunate circumstances shortly after getting it… Any who my only complaint is the appearance of them, but that’s just me being petty. They LOOK like some old school type of machine and its not a nice site visually IMO lol but again, not a factor at all
TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 1 year ago
Add stickers; they look great with stickers.
Stapling9851@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Lol you’ve got a good idea there
lemmybereal@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I can really recommend the old Thinkpad T-series business laptops if you don’t game on it. I have bought one for myself and my mother, works great!
Otherwise the Dell Latitude which are business models too and can be bought cheaply.
Stapling9851@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Awesome, so it seems like latitudes and toichpads are the goto options… Now how to narrow down the millions of models? Lol Within I guess the community? Are there certain models that are like considered the “best” options regarding a smaller budget?