ThinkPad T430

You can dual-boot Windows and Linux if you want. I'd upgrade the RAM though, 6GB will disappear very quickly in Windows. If you have the discrete graphics, you can force discrete graphics in the BIOS and get more performance (or rather, avoid cooking the CPU when videoconferencing) but the downside

Depende do equipamento. No meu ThinkPad T430, de 2012, o Xorg roda mais liso. Se for um equipamento mais novo, o wayland pode ser uma opção melhor. Agora estou esperando pra ver o Xlibre vingar...

The E6x30 Latitudes were great machines, and I hazard they were better than the contemporary ThinkPad: keyboard was almost as good as the ThinkPad X220/T420 (and better than the T430/X230), a few of them had a decent pointing stick, they were easier to repair, didn't have BIOS whitelists and they so

"upgrade my ram to 16 GB (32 if i am dedicated enough)" You can upgrade it to 16GB (2x8GB) but 32GB (2x16GB) isn't happening nor has anyone been able to get a kit like that to work on a system older than 5th gen aka Broadwell. Given you have a dGPU I would advise sticking with an i7-3632QM. "Can i o

For running Linux you're fine with a T430 and most older ThinkPads in general. I wouldn't go older than a T420 so that it's still plenty usable today. From there, just see what you can find that's in your budget starting with a T420 and upwards.

"The stick ler on the card says ddr3 (instead of ddr3l) but the listing and the rest of the specs read as they should." It shows 1.35V on the sticker which means it is DDR3L. "I tried updating the BIOS, but of course that did nothing. Any suggestions?" The kit is either DOA or bogus / fake so try to

I transitioned my 80-year-old mother's ThinkPad T430 from Windows 10 to Linux Mint XFCE. (I prefer tiling WMs on Debian, MX, or Fedora for myself.) Mint works well on her old computer, can be made to look familiar, does security updates in the background, and doesn't show her too many scary-looking

The legendary ThinkPad T430! That machine is a tank, and honestly, the i5-3320m / HD 4000 combo is the ultimate test for our WebGL optimization. Since you are running Fedora/KDE, you are in a great positions to give us some very specific feedback. Linux Firefox sometimes needs a little 'nudge' for W

Get a plain vanilla business class laptop, like the ThinkPad T, or X series machines. Mind, ThinkPads aren't the only game in town, but they do tend to be well supported and they tend to be more rugged. Someone mentioned the T420, which is quite old by now and only has USB 2.0 ports. I like them and

"Ivy Bridge (3rd Gen Intel) — last generation with easy CPU socketing (PGA) in this form factor" Fourth gen models (Haswell) like the L440/L540, T440p/T540p, W540/W541 and Y510p were the last of the socketed systems. "Best balanced: i7-3612QM or i7-3632QM — quad-core at 35W TDP, won't thermal thrott