Lee H. Marzke via plug on 16 Jun 2020 13:55:59 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Fwd: Re: Inexpensive laptop



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> Subject: [PLUG] Fwd: Re: Inexpensive laptop

> Something like this?
> 
> https://www.ebay.com/itm/Lenovo-ThinkPad-laptop-W530-Core-i7-3-60Ghz-1920x1080p-16GB-RAM-1TB-hdd-NVIDIA/142245819970
> 


ThinkWiki has a bunch of issue written against that one:
https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:W530

I'm not sure what "W" series are,  I've mostly seen "P" and "X"  units used.

This site has some recommendations: https://linuxhint.com/linux_lenovo_thinkpad/

Lee



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> On 6/16/20 9:44 AM, Lee H. Marzke via plug wrote:
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>>     *From: *"Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List"
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>>     *To: *"Drew DeVault" <sir@cmpwn.com>
>>     *Cc: *"Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List"
>>     <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>, "Tom" <tlbox@verizon.net>
>>     *Sent: *Tuesday, 16 June, 2020 02:48:39
>>     *Subject: *Re: [PLUG] Inexpensive laptop
>> 
>>     On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 10:08 PM Drew DeVault via plug
>>     <plug@lists.phillylinux.org <mailto:plug@lists.phillylinux.org>> wrote:
>> 
>>         What I don't like to roll the dice on is Linux support. Drivers,
>>         UEFI,
>>         firmware, and more can be super spotty on a lot of laptops, and it's
>>         hard to tell in advance if you'll get screwed. ThinkPads, on the
>>         other
>>         hand - I'm running Alpine Linux, NetBSD, Haiku, and Plan 9 :)
>> 
>> 
>>     Pre/Post COVID, load a thumb drive with the live install of the
>>     distro of choice. Take it to Best Buy and boot the display model of
>>     the laptop you’re interested in from the thumb drive. If everything
>>     works then you’re golden. The only caveat might be a password
>>     protected BIOS that doesn’t have “boot from USB” enabled. Good luck
>>     David
>> 
>> 
>> Used Thinkpad,  they last forever.   I've been through 6 or more units
>> for myself or installed Ubuntu on units purchased for friends.
>> The sub-model   ( screen type, etc )  sometimes matters for compatibility.
>> 
>> Yes you'll need new batteries, more RAM, and such,  but still very
>> inexpensive.
>> 
>> I've had luck with several X200  netbook size units,  X-61 tab /
>> convertible,  then upgraded to X-230 tablets.
>> For business use, I'm looking now that the newer X-1's but that is lot
>> of money.   I just can't stand anything without a track-point.
>> 
>> Lee
>> 
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