Rok, don't be showing me anymore Thinkpads! I've bought four in the past year and it's becoming an addiction
But seriously, there are tons of these that have come off of lease in the past year and you can get these company machines for incredible prices. I would go for something with a better cpu than the one in the link though. Among the small machines the X220 is one of the best and I got one this spring in excellent shape for $113 incl. shipping. It has a Sandybridge cpu. If you want a bigger machine its big brother the T420 is also awesome.

I already know but I went one model version further . I did mention collection. Which means nothing about power and speed. More about just being different. Like my M&A 9 incher Touchscreen atom Netbook. Or Dell XT2 Touchscreen Netbook.

This was a dumpster dive/city hall castoff for upgrade freebie for me. I had to fix it. But it was worth the money and effort spent.

Edit: old Chromebooks are getting cheap and the intel based ones are real good linux laptops. My Acer C710 runs AntiX just fine and dandy.

ebay does do business in Canada, rvijay. I'm guessing, but with the possible exception of shipping I don't think most of that would apply if you bought from someone in Canada:

https://www.ebay.ca/

I've never had to pay a customs fee for anything I bought no matter where in the world it came from and I've done business in several countries, I honestly can't remember if Canada was one. The exchange rate can be calculated, but that's really only needed on the fly for bidding at auction in another country where different currency is being used. If I want it you might as well not bid, I can out-snipe a bot and it's mine anyway. I lost the first auction I bid on then I saw how it worked.

I looked at the link rokytnji provided but payday is coming up so I closed the page quick or I could be looking for #9.

After the '20 series, as in T420, W520, etc. Thinkpad changed its keyboard to what's known as the "chiclets keyboard" which are considered inferior and some people don't think of them a "real" Thinkpads. My T43 is a pleasure to type on and my T61 have a reinforcing metal plate under the keyboard for support my T400 does not, from what I understand. All mine have the old style keyboard and if I switch over to my Gateway it takes a lighter touch.

Don't think there are that many choices in Canada, it is a much smaller market. I have heard customs experiences from others and this did make me hesitant.

The other last but vital thing is that I have pet birds and these drop feathers and feather powder etc., that collect inside stuffs over period of time. These are easier to clean inside desktop but laptop is smaller, so harder to clean and would also need it more often. They were selling P4 for 120 bucks locally last year used with tax. but certainly not worth it.
I keep an eye out and watch the trends but for now I have enough old desktops to last my life time of computing needs for the most part.

Rok, great find on the T430.
Netbooks are fun devices and I've had several of them. If one can find an Acer C720 Chromebook with 4gb ram those are pretty solid too and as you know, the firmware is upgradeable to run full Linux distros.

This is quite true, humanity has more PCs, Laptops than we will ever need it seems now.

CLI friendly distros are amazing, so arch is good in this regard:
https://linuxhint.com/best-linux-dis...ns-old-laptop/

This home page is also interesting:
https://linuxhint.com/

cbc.ca - this site is not working under dillo or links. Only works under regular PaleMoon browser.

So basically here are the answers from their site:
https://responsive.cbc.ca/hc/en-us/s...BC-ca-Redesign

The most vital questions:
https://responsive.cbc.ca/hc/en-us/a...e-CBC-website-
https://responsive.cbc.ca/hc/en-us/a...-the-old-site-

So basically, the site is being redesigned to be more mobile phone friendly as most are using their phones
to access the web. Hence, indirectly users of old tech are being blocked out, specially those using CLI only
and other limited browsers. cbc is a major media site in Canada. If others follow this trend, then those using
old computers will be basically limited to:
1. IRC
2. Sites that provide older media like gutenberg and librivox.org
3. Email
4. Use their PC offline for other personal things.
5. Downloading where it is allowed.

As I age, I don't feel like dumpster diving for big desktops anymore, harder to carry them around. I am glad that I got what I can when I could in the past. Don't feel I am upto opening desktops and changing parts, doing troubleshooting either, feels like a big drag. Wonder how I changed so much in 6 months to a year.

The cheapest desktop available locally for now used is 75 bucks with tax almost and similar to the one below:
https://www.pcworld.com/article/132004/article.html

I picked up two HP Elite 8000 desktops last year on ebay for $50 each. Probably the last desktops I will ever buy. People are getting rid of desktops so should be pretty inexpensive now.

Guess they were working on it, now this site is working on CLI and limited browsers again. Nice to see )

Why are they getting rid of desktops ?

How many people do you know who still have a desktop? Except for gaming, many people use laptops, and others are down to just using a smartphone for all their computing. Of course we Linux geeks aren't