You can buy it without a wireless network interface. Then it should be fairly easy to get a new wifi card and use that one. The cost comes from: - having cor

You can buy it without a wireless network interface. Then it should be fairly easy to get a new wifi card and use that one. The cost comes from: - having core boot pre-installed - CPU backdoors disabled by default - being guaranteed to run the OS of your choice Probably someone else knows this better than me. But other than buying this the approach would be to buy an older or slightly older Thinkpad. Maybe upgrade CPU, SSD. Do a lot of complicated and potentially dangerous flashing of BIOS. This would take you weeks in terms of lead times of delivery. Also it would take hours of hours of work, in which you might damage components or even get the wrong one. I would like to do this, but where am I to find the time. I would also be able to pay someone to do it, but it is not as your local computer shop will be likely to deliver. I bet that if you where I have also heard the argument that for instance smartphone producers should not ship power adapters. Since all phones can charge via USB. This is by law in the EU at least. This means that there is an enormous waste when you are creating and shipping power adaptors to people who already have four or five at home. This is not taking other family members into account