ThinkPad X220

It's possible. A refurbished Lenovo might be your best bet. (I'm still daily driving a Thinkpad x220 that I bought refurbished for around that price, but 10 years ago. Today's prices may be a bit higher (inflation).) But forget about dual-booting, a $200, 8G RAM Laptop will not run well under Win10,

I got off on an Apple rant there, and forgot to say that as someone who came primarily from the Apple laptop ecosystem, I find ThinkPads the only satisfying PC laptop experience. The quality is similar to Apple, they have fabulous keyboards, and Lenovo isn't trying to copy Apple's design aesthetics

Just as a general statement I'd say don't go any older than a Sandy Bridge Intel 2nd Gen CPU. That leaves you starting with an X220/T420/W520 and upward from there. They run Linux beautifully. I have Linux Mint on my T420 secondary to Windows 11. Most batteries are likely to be close to dead but you

I currently have 24.04.2 installed on a Lenovo x220 Thinkpad as a secondary, and 25.04 on my main rig. 24.04.2 is solid (as an LTS should be), but it's missing the nice new improvements on GNOME 48. On the flipside, there are far fewer "not supported" comments on available extensions in Extension Ma

I have X2 ThinkPads (X220 & T470) Ubuntu only os onboard. Last WinOS I ever had was XP. Best I experienced b4 adios to Windows. Linux flavours work well on old ThinkPads by the way. Desktop is Lenovo Think station P3 Tiny X2 2TB drives X4 DP X2 HDMI x3 ThinkVision Monitors etcetera etcetera also Ubu

Update the BIOS to the latest and then set it back to default settings, then disable Secure Boot and try to reinstall... if it still fails, one of two things is happening... your install media is a bad or you have some other hardware in the unit that is bad... The Thinkpad X220 is well supported in

Is there a Thinkpad/ Lenovo that is entirely made of aluminum?Love Thinkpads, have a lot of them, specially old ones [t410/ t420/ t430/ x220] their keyboards are amazing, Linux support too, but the plastic get flimsy.