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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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chez_jay
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=item56dc279cc3
Does 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...