Anyone here have experience with buying refurbished ThinkPads from Amazon sellers? I may be in need of another Windows laptop soon and I'm trying to keep the replacement below $500. Been looking at the perennial recommendation, T480.
If anyone has another recommendation for me, I'm open. The reasons I gravitate towards ThinkPads are the quality keyboard and overall good construction. I repaired more of them than I could count back in my PC tech days, but that was back in the '90s when they were made by IBM.
Requirements:
High quality keyboard
1080p resolution min
RAM expandable to 32 GB+
m.2 NVMe slot
Second storage slot (could be PCI-E or m.2)
NOT a Chromebook
Everything else is just a nice to have.
@voltronic arstechnica dealmaster lists this guY:
I don't suppose that would serve
waiting patiently for lenovo to stop soldering RAM onto the mainboard
@KAutumnrain @rpardee
It's for cost saving I'm sure, and when corporate accounts are buying pallets of these they don't really care that you're locked in at 8GB because they're going to rotate them out after a couple years anyway.
Oh for sure. Additionally, 8 GiB is getting a little tight these days but it's not the end of the world for a laptop especially.
(Naturally, depending on what, exactly, you're doing with it.)
@rpardee
8 GB non-upgradeable RAM rules it out. Too bad, because otherwise it would be good. Maybe I can find a similar model. I love to try one of the mobile Ryzen processors.