Hi,

A problem I have been coming up against is that a lot of the newer, budget Windows laptop (which I will immediately replace with my distribution of choice upon receipt) have memory soldered on the motherboard. This is a decision which brings the utmost distate to my mouth; I’m looking for budget laptops around the $300 mark (new) that let me upgrade their parts. Which models should I be looking at?

I am aware that the used market is fairly decent right now but I’d like to take a look at what’s coming up alongside looking at used gear. Thanks.

  • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    A used ThinkPad? I use Debian 12 GNOME (animations on) on an old Core i3 2nd gen desktop with 4 GB RAM and no SSD, and I can use 3-4 Firefox tabs with music player, PDF reader and Thunar file manager quite well.

    Shove in extra 4 GB RAM and put in a $50 SATA SSD if possible, and you have a snappy machine.