Hey Sup Forums, I'm in the market for a laptop. I need it for college. I have a gaming pc so thats not much of a requirement but a little bit of light gaming would be nice. I want to keep it cheap so likely used. I've seen mention and read the guide on thinkpads. Just looking for more specifics and opinions on models. How modern can i go without going over 200? I see some t420's for around 130-300 depending on condition. I read you can even upgrade the cpu, ram and put a ssd in. Would that be a decent PC for videos, writing papers and on the go work and perhaps a bit of tf2 or something?
My current laptop is very old and was probably a budget model but it was free. I have a toshiba satellite c855d right now. Would the t420 be an upgrade? Chinkpad general.
Hey Sup Forums, I'm in the market for a laptop. I need it for college...
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/tpg/ you stupid nigger
Not sure on the newer lenovos. I've heard they are kind of chinky now that production is 100% chinese.
>dell
I know its business class though.
I'll take it over to tpg.
Double nigger.
"Good condition Dell Latitude E6430 14" Laptop. Professionally pulled from a working office"
I don't really see the point in getting recommendations at that price point.
I'd say just go off the guides in /tpg/ and look for a good deal on eBay.
I'm not very tech savvy when it comes to laptops. How well would a t420 or the dell this guys lists, cpu handle modern browsing, youtube etc?
Just buy a macbook air from 2013 to current with 8GB of RAM. It's literally the perfect moderate-use laptop.
I don't have 800 dollars. Budget is 200.
what are you tech savvy about? lol
Wood.
Here's the rundown.
You get one (1) motherfucking HP 8770w.
You get it for 250 USD from the guy on ebay selling it preinstalled with Mint.
You get the one with the 1080p screen. It has two 2.5" HDD slots and an mSATA.
You get lucky: It has four RAM slots rather than four. 32 fucking gigs of bullshit real fast.
Quad core.
Pack that fucking thing full of RAM and disks.
Install linux on it as you should actually want to use your computer.
BTRFS, XFS, or ZFS, pick your poison, with network based snapshots/ rsync to your server. Mirror and encrypt it so your data could survive and ten story drop or some faggot who swiped it if you weren't paying attention so you can just buy more pieces cheap and just dump your backup to a raw disk and be up again.
You then replace the GPU with a quadro M3000M or M4000M MAXWELL GPU in this MXM /whitelistless/ tank depending on your demand for roughly 400 USD, giving you the mobile eqivalent of an ungimped GTX 960-970 in a god damned laptop that does not throttle when disconnected from AC.
Dropped, spilled, stood on and still in abso-fucking-lutely perfect shape.
It would be fine for web browsing, running office, email, shit like that. Forget about gaming though.
Honestly though,
>gonna spend 80k on tuition
>$200 on a laptop
If I were you I'd up my budget a bit.
I'm paid to go to school. Cheap community college tech program. I get 3000 dollars back every year on top of going to school.
>community college IT program
might as well kys
>Professionally pulled from a working office
So it's stolen? :^)
Oil and gas. Enjoy your 4 year debt prison. I already have job offers from multiple companies making 25+ and I was paid to go to school. Graduate in 10 weeks.
I got my gf a T420 for christmas to use at school and she likes it. It only cost me like 100 burgerbucks (only has a 720p screen though but she isn't turbo autism so she doesn't mind)
We have a thinkpad thread you fucking retarded