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.
@matuzalem
May I ask where you got it and how much you paid?
@matuzalem
Think that one's my winner winner chicken dinner. Thanks!
Is that 512 GB SSD an NVMe?
@voltronic NVME all the way, some people add an M2 to the WWAN slot, but I don't want to increase the heat, so I just swapped it with a 2TB kit from iFixit.
@matuzalem
Oh, it uses the 2230 form factor?
@matuzalem
Ordered! $357 seems like a good deal even if I have to replace the battery. Hopefully it's in otherwise "excellent" condition as stated.
Did you find the display to be rather dim? That seems to be the main complaint in reviews, but this thing is rarely going to leave my house.
@voltronic display is dim, but even with my dying eyes, i find it as a feature in these days of too darn bright displays that keep us awake at night. lol
@voltronic that's the one and the place