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You could get a refurbished Thinkpad. They are made for business use and tend to be more reliable than the super slim laptops and they work great with Linux. Newegg has a refurbished T480 for $238. It's pretty nice and has a very long battery life if you get the extended battery pack.
The mini PCs are also nice if you don't need something portable. They are more upgradable than a laptop.
Thinkpads seem to have such a huge following, so there must be a reason...I had one briefly but lost it due to unfortunate circumstances shortly after getting it... Any who my only complaint is the appearance of them, but that's just me being petty. They LOOK like some old school type of machine and its not a nice site visually IMO lol but again, not a factor at all
Add stickers; they look great with stickers.
Lol you've got a good idea there
I can really recommend the old Thinkpad T-series business laptops if you don't game on it. I have bought one for myself and my mother, works great!
Otherwise the Dell Latitude which are business models too and can be bought cheaply.
Awesome, so it seems like latitudes and toichpads are the goto options.... Now how to narrow down the millions of models? Lol Within I guess the community? Are there certain models that are like considered the "best" options regarding a smaller budget?
i recently picked up one and love it. These thinkpads are also flooding ebay so some with great specs can be had for less than the $238 newegg is asking for. Just gotta look around.
Ya see, I have no clue which models to be looking for. Surely some are better than others or more sought out than others, so I don't really even know which is which. Perhaps you do? Or did you just pick a random model that fit the specs you wanted?
I grabbed a T480s model with 256gb NVME and 24GB RAM. Also includes fingerprint reader, this one seems to be hit/miss so check pictures if its important to you. Paid $200 delivered. Been running PopOS no problem. Its been a great little laptop in the last 2-3 weeks that I have owned it.
Awesome! And it comes with 24 gigs of ram out of the box????
it did. the $200 was for everything i received from the ebay seller. didnt do any additional updates or upgrades.
I can't see the prior comments of our convo so sorry if I already asked. So if I go the thinkpad route, how the heck do I determine which models to look at? There's probably a ton and I'm sure some are lawded as better than others, any tips on which models to look out for?
Tons of the T480 and T480s models are hitting eBay since they seem to be coming off corporate lease. The T480 seems to be a little better if you want to do things like RAM and storage upgrades but both seem like great machines to me. If you want to save a few more bucks, the T460 is also an option. All those Lenovo models are really well supported with Linux if you choose to go that route. Mine came with a copy of windows 11 pre installed, which I promptly removed.
Perfect, thanks a lot
I'm replying from my T480 that I really love. I put Fedora on it and never have any issues. Biggest downsides in my opinion are bad speakers and display brightness doesn't go very high (hard to work on it outside, for instance). Otherwise, super easy to upgrade and cheap to get parts for. Grabbed a big battery off Amazon and it lasts all day for me.