Business Laptop and Setup General

Lumeinshin

Thinkpads, Dells, HPs and more. Your Beefy business laptops as well as your PC setups

Many 2/3rd gen intel core i series laptops are now considered Retro i'm sure, but they can still run a modern linux distro just fine and can be good machines, that coupled with the ability to actually upgrade and customise them makes them more desirable than some of the others.

Perhaps you have an older machine that makes using some sites and such a challenge?

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Resources: (more will be added as the thread develops)
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Fantasy

I wish I had bought a thinkpad. When I was buying my laptop I just picked up a cheap asus. Ended up paying too much for what I got and not liking it anyways. Very wide, very heavy, but I can't do anything with it. parts aren't available besides basic stuff so when it dies it's dead unless I can part one out.
But I see thinkpad parts all the time.
Nothing serious needs to be done on a laptop for me anyways so them being under powered is fine.
Definitely going to be my next laptop purchase when my current asus dies.

Lumeinshin

Fantasy
Yeah part availability is kinda a big reason for me as far as getting a business laptop goes. Much harder to get/find parts for more consumer tier machines

I finally set up my T420 yesterday, still have the CPU and screen to upgrade in future. But i've finally set up LVM and such. Far more difficult than it needed to be I think. It will be handy though as far as good cyber security practise goes. My desktop has never been secure enough IMO so this laptop is definitely far more so.
As far as cost, Any thinkpad 2 years old is like £350 on ebay, and if you go to 4 years old you can find ones for sub £200, given some time. Just gotta keep an eye out.

hpfs

Dell Latitudes have gone downhill. I have a newer Dell Latitude (11th Gen Intel) and it has battery issues and poor build quality. The Wireless card and RAM is removable (does anyone actually upgrade laptop RAM?). Compare to the well known to be indestructible D620.

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