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Is there a better budget device for $230?
Is there a better budget device for $230?
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Honestly, the RAM alone seems almost worth that price.
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Is it fully in working condition? Does it boot up?
Then yes.
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This was the listing. It seems like the pricing is around $150-$250. There's a 16 GB version with the same processor, but in worse physical condition for $222 right now. Maybe just slightly lucky?
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Enjoy!
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That seems like a steal. The cpu is very capable and there’s plenty of RAM. And it’s a thinkpad…
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Oh hey! I got just a similar one but gen 2 for $55 more (shipping killed me though).
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Dang, I just got a ThinkPad T490, 16GB and 256GB for that price! Trade you?
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(I love it. There's something special about an old ThinkPad.)
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Wait. T490 is considered old now? For me, an "old" thinkpad is definitely pre-chicklet keyboard (*30 generation and older).
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I just got a T490 for work and I'm loving it
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Holy shit that's a steal, where I'm from an inferior device is 50% more expensive
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You did good. Was that Ebay or what?
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It was on ebay. I was actually watching Intel versions sell then noticed the AMD version had 8 cores and was selling for around the same price, so I purchased one.
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That's a very good deal if it's working.
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jeezt chreezy buy 3 and resell 2 on Craigslist to pay for the third.
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very cool, top of the line, if the battery is in good condition, it'll serve you a long time. wish lenovo went with 2x RAM slots, not just 1x. keep a lookout for cheap docks if you wanna run it with external stuff (monitors, LAN, etc.) - game changer.
heads-up, although it says 4750, that's a 3000-series Ryzen (Zen 2) and as such has intermittent linux issues wrt power management. a coupla kernel switches and/or other tweaks may be needed, dependent on the kernel your distro's using. sold mine a while ago so can't remember the deets, but overall the switches I needed for Zen 2 to reliably sleep and wake aren't needed for Zen 3 (5000 series).
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I once got my hands on. Ryzen that version that kept shutting down in Fedora if you put it under any load, and sometimes just shut down for no reason... I did some googling but couldn't figure out how to keep it from happening. I tried some power state stuff, but never found the right combo.
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What the heck? Here a base model T450 costs that
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Damn they're still going for $200+? At least it has a lot of ram. I got my T14 gen 1 (basic removed i5) for $200 like 2 years ago. I just replaced it with an i7 T14s gen 3 for $250.
Side note: is there a buy/sell community on Lemmy? I have a bunch of old machines I need to sell off and I don't want to sell on eBay.
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This has me looking now... I have a tiny 11" blue dell inspiron with an M3 that I've been tinkering on as a dev laptop, refreshed it with Debian+XFCE but I can't replace parts on it like I should.
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