Re: Inexpensive laptops (was: ARM laptops)
Mike Carden via linux-aus <[email protected]>
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I'm typing this on a circa 2010 Lenovo X201 laptop which I bought second hand in late 2012. It has an Intel i5 M 580 (4) @ 2.667GHz CPU and 7728MiB of RAM. By modern standards it's a tad chunky, but its keyboard is perhaps still the best laptop keyboard ever made with proper full-throw keys. Like many laptops did back in the day, this one has an external battery that you can unclip and swap, with IIRC a couple of sizes available. The original battery faded out a couple of years ago so I spent about AUD$90 to have a new one delivered and it has been excellent. The original 500G spinning disk was still working but quite slow when a few months ago I spent about $100 online for a 1TB SSD which was a five-minute swap. Keen to experience what the Cool Kids are running now, I installed System 76's POP!_OS (a Debian/Ubuntu derivative) on the new drive and I am rather impressed. A quick look online suggests that ancient X201s are about AUD$100 at the moment. Add a new battery and a new SSD and for around AUD$300 you might get yourself one of the best laptops ever made. -- MC _______________________________________________ linux-aus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to linux-aus-unsubscribe-cunTk1MwBs8iFSDQTTA3OBCuuivNXqWP@public.gmane.org