Sometimes, old machines are survivors. Beware of confirmation bias when trash/thrift-picking cheap systems though. IMO, Thinkpads can be tough as a coffin nail. Including work systems, I’m on number 8 at this point with no hardware failures in sight.
That said, I have a very lightweight Acer that’s about a decade old with the worst keyboard and trackpad ever manufactured. It also performs like a slug, even with Linux on it. Still, it refuses to break so I can get rid of it.
Elitebooks also hold up, I Frankenstein’d one together from old broken work laptops 10+ years ago for my brother, I had to replace the wifi chip and HDD that finally died in it the other week and threw Mint onto it with an SSD and that thing still handles like a dream. Boots in less than 10 seconds.
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Sometimes, old machines are survivors. Beware of confirmation bias when trash/thrift-picking cheap systems though. IMO, Thinkpads can be tough as a coffin nail. Including work systems, I’m on number 8 at this point with no hardware failures in sight.
That said, I have a very lightweight Acer that’s about a decade old with the worst keyboard and trackpad ever manufactured. It also performs like a slug, even with Linux on it. Still, it refuses to break so I can get rid of it.
Elitebooks also hold up, I Frankenstein’d one together from old broken work laptops 10+ years ago for my brother, I had to replace the wifi chip and HDD that finally died in it the other week and threw Mint onto it with an SSD and that thing still handles like a dream. Boots in less than 10 seconds.