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I purchased one just last week for the same purpose. Newegg.com has Lenovo T420 Thinkpads on sale. http://preview.tinyurl.com/ztwnyh5 http://preview.tinyurl.c
by hourislate 11y ago
I purchased one just last week for the same purpose.
Newegg.com has Lenovo T420 Thinkpads on sale.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/ztwnyh5 http://preview.tinyurl.com/ztwnyh5
I upgraded the Ram to 8 gig and installed a SSD. Purchased a USB 3.0 card for the express card slot (2 x 3.0) and a second cdrom caddy that allows for another SSD. It also has an M2 slot next the RAM on the underside.
Laptop was $199, MEM was $48, Caddy was $12, SSD was $89, and USB 3.0 card was $12.
The laptop worked fine the way it was but with the upgrades it is just awesome.
Was a little hesitant because it is a refurbished unit but when I got it, it looked brand new and the battery charged to a full 100 %. I'm really, really pleased with the whole purchase.
As for Distros, Mint, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Kali have had no issues. Install was uneventful.
- 55555 11y agoThank you for your reply. A lot of people are mentioning that they added an SSD. Can I ask why this is so popular? Is the benefit purely disk read/write speed?
- brudgers 11y agoUntil I added one, I didn't realize how much difference an SSD makes. The machine boots, starts programs, shuts down, etc. much faster. Roughly, opening Thunderbird locally takes about the same amount of time as opening Gmail in my browser. Things happen at web app speed.