Currently running mint on a 15+ year old HP laptop but I want to update to a ‘modern’ second hand Thinkpad. The second hand market is just full of different model numbers and I’m not sure how to filter to what I’m after.
I get most tech basics (ram, ssh) but I’m not sure what all the models numbers, generations or processors mean.
Looking for something with a memory card spot, HDMI output and ideally touchscreen.
I don’t use it for gaming but have an ultra wide screen high res monitor (possibly 2k cant quite remember) that I’d like to take advantage of.
Larger SSD and 16gb ram wouldn’t hurt too but I assume I can upgrade them.
I don’t need the Yoga tablet style folding.
I almost bought a Yoga with 16GB ram and a very fast AMD processor on black friday sale at bestbuy for $500 a couple years ago. A friend talked me out of it because the 16GB ram was soldered in and not expandable. Similar machine is around $1000 now. Oh well.
Yeah get something sort of recent. Depending what you’re doing 16GB ram is more than plenty. 8GB is ok, 4GB is marginal.
My 2011(?)-vintage T510 is ok for most of my purposes, but youtube has been migrating to cpu-hungry codecs so videos these days bog down the cpu and look janky. Maybe I can change some settings to fix that.
I do like the idea of a yoga-style tablet for use as an e-reader.