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I bought an old thinkpad (T460) earlier this year after years of being very hesitant to upgrade from an older (X220) Thinkpad. It's incredible. Great screen, ke
by clircle 8y ago
I bought an old thinkpad (T460) earlier this year after years of being very hesitant to upgrade from an older (X220) Thinkpad. It's incredible. Great screen, keyboard, battery (it's got two!), trackpoint... The whole package is good as hell. I bought a fairly tricked-out one off Ebay for less than $550. Running Debian Linux and this thing just flies.
- raihansaputra 8y agoGreat suggestion, I'm finding quite the same prices locally (i7-6500U, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD), but I'm looking over the specs and wondering whether the Nvidia/Optimus / trackpoint / trackpad / wifi are working fine on linux? This is a pretty beefy laptop to run Windows anyway.. EDIT: scratch that, was probably a scam. Got one with i5, 500GB HDD, 8GB RAM with integrated 520HD graphics for around US$500. But the point on the drivers still stands. How is it working and how's the battery life?
- clircle 8y agoI don't have issues with drivers, but I don't use a lot of different devices with the computer. Wifi and wireless mice work out of the box. Haven't tried bluetooth, I'm not sure if it has bluetooth TBH. Battery life is good, but nothing awesome due to the 1080p screen. I think I get 5-7 hours depending on task. If you want to go all in on battery life, get the X220/X230 with the extended battery and 768p screen. I got ~9.5 hrs with this setup. Mine didn't come with Optimus (You DON'T want a linux laptop with Optimus).