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This is a nice guide! Used Thinkpads have been very, very good to me over the years. For most of the last decade I bought used Thinkpad T42's for $100-$200 (se
by sigil 11y ago
This is a nice guide!
Used Thinkpads have been very, very good to me over the years. For most of the last decade I bought used Thinkpad T42's for $100-$200 (see the empirical depreciation curve here [1]), beat them up for a year or two, then swapped the hard drive into a fresh machine when I finally and inevitably killed the old one. No downtime, no waiting for repairs, no tears shed over the death of a fancy laptop.
If you're on a budget, or in situations where repair downtime is unacceptable (eg travelling and working internationally) it looks from this guide like a master + spare from the T4xx-T5xx series is your ticket.
[1] http://alangrow.com/projects/laptop-prices/#T42 http://alangrow.com/projects/laptop-prices/#T42
- threedaymonk 11y agoI follow a similar philosophy. At the moment, I have two near-identical factory-refurbished x220's, each of which I've upgraded with an IPS screen, 16 GB RAM, and an SSD. One stays at home, and I use the other at the client site. Even with the upgrades, they still cost me little enough that I wouldn't mind too much if one died, and I've always got at least one spare and ready to go.
- vwoolf 11y agoUsed Thinkpads have been very, very good to me over the years I use a MacBook Pro but have recommended Thinkpads to Windows-using friends. A couple years ago I actually knew a site that re-sold decommissioned corporate models for okay prices and very low bullshit. Wish I could remember the name.