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best cheap laptop with a usb c input? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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just need it for school so nothing fancy

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Any older Thinkpad that's about 5-7 years old on eBay. You can get units that were high end when they came out (normal speed now) for $200-300 all day.

I know specifically the P50's have a thunderbolt port and you can get them with an i7 for around $250.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

This guy computes

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Get yourself an old ThinkPad if you don't care about speed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Older, used computers will be slow, but if you know how to give em a good refresh, you can get em running well.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Install Linux

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That was my intent, yeah. But not everyone has the knowledge on how to install Linux and may be intimidated by its reputation of not being user friendly - not everyone knows how user friendly it can be.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You don't have to buy a computer so old that it requires a lightweight Linux distro. You can find quad-core i5s with 16GB of RAM for around $300. That will run Windows 11 just fine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can get a computer that good for that cheap nowadays? I must look in the wrong places for em...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Keep an eye out for Dell Refurbished to run one of their 50% off deals. Recently they had 9th-gen i5s with those specs in that price range, and they're refurbished business laptops so generally higher build quality than consumer hardware.