Would be cool if you linked it but you don’t hve to!
additional info: won’t be used for gaming and i’m putting xcfe linux on it. i need it for school for basic stuff
Would be cool if you linked it but you don’t hve to!
additional info: won’t be used for gaming and i’m putting xcfe linux on it. i need it for school for basic stuff
With the preface of “cheap”, do not ever buy a laptop under $500. They are simply underspecced by the time they get that low, and will give a bad experience.
I would also recommend something like a Lenovo ThinkPad, they are pretty damn tough. Maybe a ThinkPad E14 Gen 5 Intel. Spec it out to 16gb of memory and even the i3 processor will get your job done fine in Linux, while landing in under $650. Plus they have removable M.2 SSD’s that can be changed out for a higher capacity very easily, and much much cheaper than the $300 they charge to kit it with a 1tb drive…
To add to this, if $500 is actually your budget:
Get a good second hand laptop. I picked up a 2020 model X1 Carbon a few months ago for 🇦🇺$200 and paid another $90 for a new battery for it. Came to about $300 for a great little laptop.
This was for the kid to take to school, so I didn’t want to be buying a $1,000 thing that he’d destroy.
if you do go for a thousand thing get a framework, incredibly modular pc
Holy shit, that is a great deal regardless of where in the world you are. How’d you get it so cheap?
It had a dead battery. Didn’t hold charge at all when you unplugged it. On the second hand market, that makes this laptop ‘faulty’.
How is a laptop with a dead battery usable for school? Do they spend the whole time in a single classroom which has sockets?
They wrote they got a new battery for it.