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I have a way cheaper machine myself that I still use everyday. It's a T60 with upgraded CPU (T7600), second hand 60GB SATA II SSD, 3GB RAM (limited due to chip
by eloy 10y ago
I have a way cheaper machine myself that I still use everyday.
It's a T60 with upgraded CPU (T7600), second hand 60GB SATA II SSD, 3GB RAM (limited due to chipset bug), ExpressCard with USB 3.0 and a 9-cell battery which lasts for 1/2 hours.
I spend around $100 for this machine in total, only $25 for the T60 itself.
I'm not using this particular machine because the specs are so great, but because I found it on Ebay and it was painted yellow. It's such an awesome thing. It runs Debian with XFCE4 fine, but websites like Facebook in Firefox isn't that fast. For development purposes it's perfectly fine.
I'm thinking about upgrading this machine with a motherboard from a T60p with a FireGL GPU one day, but I have to research if that would work.
You could take the same route as I did, but if that's too much work I'd go for a X201 with SSD and 8GB RAM.
- ddorian43 10y agoDamn dude why so low ssd ? I think their performance goes down when at ~40%+ full.
- eloy 10y agoI don't encounter any slowdown yet, it's 50% full. Maybe I will put a new SSD in this thing when I really need more storage for applications.
- seiferteric 10y agoHa I just finally stopped using my ~2008 T61 with similar specs (now acting as my pfsense router). Was a great machine, but realistically a core2 duo is just too under powered these days. I had 4GB ram and a 128GB SSD and even looked into upgrading the cpu for a bit. You could get the highest spec CPU from ebay, but cost for such little gain made it not worth it.
- eloy 10y agoYep, I have the highest spec CPU for the T60, the T7600 :) I paid $15,- on Ebay for the CPU with free shipping.