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What second hand laptop to buy (lemmy.world)

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I would like to buy myself a second hand and install Linux on it. I was looking into ThinkPad T14 gen1 or gen2 devices because of their maintainability and repairability. I found one where I live with a Ryzen processor but it has the wrong keyboard. How easy and expensive would it be to swap this with US English? Are there any good alternatives to the ThinkPads? I fancy the X1 but don't like the fact that I cannot change or swap anything on it. The T14 looks very bulky and unattractive but at least can have the RAM upgraded and the battery changed.

I fancy the Framework laptops, but don't want to spend so much on a laptop. Especially the latest 16 inch with Ryzen AI CPUs.

The T14 G1 is at least cheap, like 350€ with the 400 nits low power display and the battery is at 99%. I guess with tlp installed and autocpugfreq I can get 5-6 hours out of it.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (6 children)

but it has the wrong keyboard

you can also either manually reconfigure keys or just choose your habitual keyboard layout and ignore the markings (that's what i do. How often do you look at your keyboard anyway?)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (4 children)

In the night I do look every now and then, plus if I need some special symbol, it is much better if you have it on the keyboard instead of googling

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

i don't know why you got downVoted for writing about your preferences 🤷

i have my permanent marker for those "special symbols" i rarely use and never learn :)

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