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I second this opinion. There are for example lots of people who are happy with older Lenovo models. Performance wise you don't need to loose that much, since th
by jpalomaki 10y ago
I second this opinion. There are for example lots of people who are happy with older Lenovo models. Performance wise you don't need to loose that much, since the Intel CPUs are not getting that much faster. Pick up some good model (for example on Lenovo side look at X2x0 or the T4x0 (where x=2,3,4,5,6) models) and swap HDD with some reasonably priced SSD and put in max memory.
- coredog64 10y agoThe SSD is key for the Latitude e6xxx. Some of my co-workers are stuck with those and spinning rust and they are hot garbage.
- gamache 10y agoI just bought a 2015 Thinkpad T450 from eBay (I do mean "just bought", it hasn't even arrived yet). Beware the T440 and earlier because they max out at 8GB RAM. I got a T450 with an i7 processor and 8GB RAM expandable to 32GB, and it came in under $500 including the fancy Thinkpad dock. In general, nothing runs Linux quite like Last Year's Model.
- beryleo 10y agoIt's not quite true that T440 and earlier max out at 8GB RAM - I'm writing this from a T430s w/ 16GB RAM. A T430 can also go to 16GB, and a T440s can go to 12 GB.
- gamache 10y agoThat doesn't agree with the docs I read. But since I am reading your post, I guess the docs could use an update. :)