On Tue, 10 Sep 2019 at 19:54, Adam Bower adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
I just got a Thinkpad P52s brand new for £800, it has the number pad, full hd screen, ssd, 16GB ram, some low voltage variant of the i7, USB-C charging, webcam, 3 year next business day on site warranty. It was cheap as the P53s has just come out, however looking online the previous P series all seem to be outside your budget (and mostly more than I just paid for a new one!).
Yeah, I could stretch the budget if necessary but I can't see a P52s for that sort of price and a P53s starts a touch over a grand, which I think is more than I can justify.
My problem is that I don't know the Lenovo range well enough to know what to search for. A laptop from 2-3 years ago would be fine for what she needs.
Everything worked out the box on the p52s using Ubuntu 18.04 with no issues at all, even firmware updates "just work" using fwupdmgr.
That's all good to know thanks.