ThinkPad T430

ThinkPad. Go for the T series. It will cost you more. But its longevity and upgradeability will save you even more. My T430 lasted 12 years. It didn't even break down. I sold it off real cheap to a student in need.

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

This shift for Lenovo (and many other companies) came around 2013 or so. That seemed to be around when Intel started to heavily discourage laptop manfactureres from making medium performance laptops with upgradable M series CPUs in favour of thin and light laptops with Intel's U series ultrabook CPU

Si no sos muy demandante andá por una Lenovo Thinkpad T430, en el market están alrededor de 200k y traen un i5 que me parece que es de 3ra gen. le pones un SSD y te olvidas

nambah dari komentar org yg bawah (apa atas ini, gatau) klo budget harus dibawah 2.8-an, T430 yg blom diupgrade lumayan murah harusnya, klo cuma 4/8 GB RAM beli juga lebih murah beli RAM tambahannya (contoh) klo bisa mepet dikit dan gk mau yg berat2, T480 bisa ketemu yg sekitar 2.9 jt, klo mesti bgt

The T430 can be keyboard swapped with the T420 which makes the T430 one of the highest you can go with classic keyboard, that's why this sub simps the T430. Going higher is significantly more expensive: You can buy the ThinkPad 25 You can make a T480-ThinkPad 25 Frankenpad You can buy an 51nb mother

"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

"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

For storage any 2.5" SSD should work and you can install a second SSD by using the mSATA slot. The latter was limited by Lenovo to Gen2 speeds which shouldn't impact day to day use at all unless you are moving lots of data (I've run Doom 2016 + other games off an mSATA SSD in my T430 in the past). F

Not sure about the price range in USD but the T495 is an old machine. It will be fine for linux but sourcing batteries and parts for those older ThinkPads can be a little difficult. If its a second machine , then T495 T480/580 are solid machines T430/530 are fun for modders and can be upgraded and s