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Re: OT, Recommendation for low cost laptop



On Sun Jul 17 09:16:57 2022 Dekks Herton <dekkzz78@gmail.com> wrote:

> john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> writes:
>
>> I'm comtemplating buying a Pinebook pro but I'm not sure if this is
>> better then buying a Windows laptop and putting linux on it.
>>
>> I'm looking for something cheap (max would be around 300 bucks),
>> do you have any suggestions/ideas?
>
> 2nd hand Thinkpad off ebay, craigslist etc, likely easy to upgrade and
> certainly straightforward to install linux.

Another place to look is your local laptop store.  My current laptop,
as well as its predecessor, are refurbished ThinkPads I bought there
for about $300.  They run Linux just fine.

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