<div dir="ltr"><p>About a month ago I paid $193.50 for a refurbished Lenovo ThinkPad T470s (i7-7600U | 16GB RAM | 256GB SSD NVMe) with Linux Mint installed from Free Geek on ebay (<a href="https://www.ebay.com/str/freegeekportland" title="https://www.ebay.com/str/freegeekportland" class="gmail-https">https://www.ebay.com/str/freegeekportland</a>), and I've been very happy with it. As a bonus, they seem like an awesome organization, so I'm happy to support them.</p></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 15, 2024 at 12:12 PM Rick Moen <<a href="mailto:rick@linuxmafia.com">rick@linuxmafia.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Something I said offlist:<br>
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If I were looking to run Linux on a laptop, personally I would shop<br>
around for a 4-year-old (or newer) used ThinkPad, e.g., on<br>
<a href="https://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/</a> .<br>
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$125 for a 2017 model.<br>
<a href="https://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/sys/d/albany-lenovo-thinkpad-i5-7300u-260ghz/7749799295.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/sys/d/albany-lenovo-thinkpad-i5-7300u-260ghz/7749799295.html</a><br>
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$100, about the same vintage:<br>
<a href="https://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/sys/d/palo-alto-lenovo-thinkpad-t460-i5-6300u/7752599677.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/sys/d/palo-alto-lenovo-thinkpad-t460-i5-6300u/7752599677.html</a><br>
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$285, same vintage, but ultralight and includes a dock:<br>
<a href="https://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/sys/d/palo-alto-lenovo-thinkpad-t470s-i5/7750665046.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/sys/d/palo-alto-lenovo-thinkpad-t470s-i5/7750665046.html</a><br>
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$399, 2023 model.<br>
<a href="https://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/sys/d/san-bruno-lenovo-thinkpad-p14s-gen-32/7754420153.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/sys/d/san-bruno-lenovo-thinkpad-p14s-gen-32/7754420153.html</a><br>
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