Hi good people,
I have to say that for the past couple of years I'm using a Dell Latitude E5450 (if I remember correctly). I've also advised my dad to get one of them. Never had any problems, all hardware gets recognised and battery last forever. Tested with few previous versions of Mint (various flavours), and things like Zorin, Kali etc. With Intel i5, 8gb ram and SSD drive it's all one needs for every day tasks.
I'm sure there are much newer models but if I was to advise something I would look at Latitude which recently dropped from Dell official store. They will be cheap and have plenty of life in them.
W dniu piątek, 13 września 2019 Mark Rogers <mark@more-solutions.co.uk> napisał(a):
> On Thu, 12 Sep 2019 at 19:26, Adam Bower <adam@thebowery.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> I can't really vouch for it being worth it, I'm unlikely to have any other
>> laptop than a Thinkpad simply because I use the Trackpoint exclusively
>> which really limits my choice, to me a laptop with just a trackpad is
>> worthless.
>
> Fair enough! I never managed to get used to them myself (probably
> because I'm mostly a desktop user - if they'd caught on there it might
> be a different story).
>
>> I would still say that Thinkpads are fairly straight forward to upgrade
>> and repair though, they provide hardware maintenance manuals and they work
>> well with Linux. My W530 is now 5 years old and given no problems (apart
>> from it now does a random reboot once every 2 weeks or so) and is still
>> very capable, a P50 would be 3 generations newer than a W530 so certainly
>> a good choice.
>>
>> Also, I've never found a Thinkpad with a keyboard that wasn't trivial to
>> upgrade.
>
> That's all good to know. It sounds like I would have no problems
> upgrading to SSD if I bought one that came without, which is the other
> thing that bugs me about modern laptops. Including modern Lenovos if
> you pick the wrong range (and good luck finding that as a bullet point
> in a feature list at Currys!)
>
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