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Okay you're bringing up a whole lot of things here. To address your main question: no. Now to address the rest of what you say: What's your budget for a Thin

Okay you're bringing up a whole lot of things here. To address your main question: no. Now to address the rest of what you say: What's your budget for a ThinkPad? Why do you want a ThinkPad in particular? Saying an i5 processor is meaningless. What model? Like i5-10210U. That seems like a really big SSD for a laptop that would be of the era to still only have two cores and 8 gigs of RAM. Yes that could be enough power for beginner to intermediate programming. Additional processor cores can't be emulated on storage. The only reason storage could be used as swap is because there is no difference between storage and RAM except one is volatile and the other one isn't. A processor isn't storage although it has storage on it in registers and cache. You're getting way ahead of yourself with the third paragraph there and I suggest that you go and relearn the fundamentals of how computers work before you even approach any of this next stuff.

amts 4y ago
> What's your budget for a ThinkPad? Maybe 300-400 euros, but it's currently potentially diminishing. > Why do you want a ThinkPad in particular? In [1] I was advised to aquire used T and X series Thinkpads instead of Dell. And I googled, with specific attention to display features (PWM) and build quality, and it seems that Thinkpads seem to provide similar or better overall quality vs more expensive Dell XPS and others. Potential CPU is i5-6300U + 8 GB RAM and 512 or 1Tb SSD (updated/refurbrished Lenovo T470 thinkpad with 14" display and 2 year waranty (the local seller I may buy from is providing 2 year warranty on used thinkpads and 0.5 year on battery, which seems safer than on ebay)). [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33607054 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33607054