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Neel2000 05-11-2020 05:27 PM

Seeking help with disto choice
 
I'm looking for a used laptop to put linux mint on.
Any suggestions?

Dell, HP, or Lenovo.
4 - 8 GB RAM.
Decent display.
at most 250 GB storage.
less than $200.

Timothy Miller 05-11-2020 05:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Neel2000 (Post 6121931)
I'm looking for a used laptop to put linux mint on.
Any suggestions?

Dell, HP, or Lenovo.
4 - 8 GB RAM.
Decent display.
at most 250 GB storage.
less than $200.

This would be best in it's own thread, but look into ThinkPad T430's. Solid laptops that can be had cheap and are extremely linux-friendly.
If you can find them, then for something a bit newer, and much lighter and thinner, the Latitude E7440/E7450 can sometimes be found for those prices.

rtmistler 05-14-2020 07:46 AM

New thread created.

ondoho 05-14-2020 04:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Neel2000 (Post 6121931)
Dell, HP, or Lenovo.
4 - 8 GB RAM.
Decent display.
at most 250 GB storage.
less than $200.

I recently got a thinkpad x250 for 200EUR, which is a bit more than 200USD. Otherwise it fills your requirements I believe.

It's hard work, trawling amazon, ebay & local variants for just the right thing, but it pays.
Asking questions about it here won't make it easier.

frankbell 05-14-2020 07:20 PM

Many of the members of my LUG are fans of Thinkpads.

I've had good luck with a couple o Dell Inspirons in the past. The only catch is that they had Broadcom wireless, which takes a couple of extra steps to get working.

sp331yi 05-14-2020 10:55 PM

Any of those three with at least a Core2Duo and capacity of 4GB RAM (I favor Dell, also), though BIOS may need updating to the latest.

Using a Latitude D630 now, with 4GB RAM and 120 GB SSD, running antiX 19.1 64bit

ondoho 05-16-2020 02:19 AM

^ Latitudes were high on my list, too, when I was searching for a small, affordable, but fairly recent laptop.

Hermani 05-20-2020 04:35 PM

Just bought my third Thinkpad and I am very happy with it. I am just about to install Linux on it (you can see, I am now temporarily using Windows).

If you buy a Thinkpad, you'll probably be OK. You can always check the Ubuntu hardware list and look for compatability.

When buying a used laptop, make sure the battery is OK and if not, check to see whether you can replace it.

Also I recommend replacing any hard drives with a SSD and getting some extra RAM. However the former is the most important to get some nice performance on the cheap!


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