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That's really useful thanks!
I'm kind of open to any laptop really, I just don't have the budget I had a few years ago - looking at the Thinkpads because they seem cheap & relatively powerful for the money. Maybe one like this:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lenovo-Laptop-Windows-10-Thinkpad-X260-Core-i5-6200U-2-30GHz-8GB-128GB-SSD-HDMI-/373060771011?hash=item56dc279cc3Does that look any good?
Budget could go to around £500 - the only hard work would be occasionally recording music (home use only using an external USB audio interface), the rest just standard watching online lessons, browsing the net, video calls etc...
Lw.-
When buying an ex-corporate laptop, particularly a Thinkpad, ensure it doesn't have BIOS locked with a supervisor password. This may e.g. block use of ports/changes to boot order (thus making it impossible to reinstall OS from USB), and requires specialised hardware to crack.
And don't confuse that with administrator password.
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I use Linux, Ubuntu specifically... but if you have a copy of Windows, then I have a spare Thinkpad X1 Carbon 5th gen
Specs:
- Thinkpad X1 Carbon 5th Gen
- 16GB RAM
- i7-7500 CPU
Battery good and everything nice... no box though.
I've been thinking about selling it, and would for £500 on here, but the warning is that I would only leave a Linux installed and you'd have to source Windows if that is what you wanted.
I used this as a developer laptop for a couple of years for non-work stuff, but when I changed job last year I got a new work machine as well as buying a gaming machine when lockdown began... so this laptop hasn't been used in over a year and it's only 3 years since it was purchased new. It's completely unlocked, etc as it was a personal device. Warranty has expired. Minor marks on the lid as the most use it got was as a travel laptop, so being put in a rucksack for flights and such were the heavy use it saw - better in flight entertainment than the tiny screen on the back of a chair.
It's a good laptop, I'm just spoiled for machines.
- Thinkpad X1 Carbon 5th Gen
chez_jay
Velocio
Nope... a USB adaptor that connects an old hard drive to another machine is not going to harm the machine.
Exceptions: You have virus / malware and are going to execute stuff or had autoplay enabled (this doesn't sound like your issue) or you're using a USB-C adaptor and the power controller is f*cked and we're in the future (this does not apply to you today, it's hypothetical).