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,

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

Official Lenovo documentation sez that the X220, T420, T520 and other Sandy Bridge era machines support 8G of RAM maximum (2x 4G DIMMs). That is only because at that time, 8G DIMMs were not widely available for Lenovo to test and validate. These machines will support 2x 8G DIMMs, but not just any 8G

Sony Vaio 14 Inch, lupa model apa. Body putih, hitam di bagian pinggir dan bawah kalo ga salah. Raib dimaling. Toshiba Portege Z-30A, beli sebagai ganti Vaio yang raib. Masih ada dan berfungsi, tapi ngga bisa charge setelah sekitar 3 tahun pemakaian. Masuk 5 tahun pemakaian, ngga mau nyala. Lanjut p

I still use my 14 year old Lenovo X220 Tablet (convertible laptop/tablet). I upgraded the hard drive to an SSD 10 years ago, increased the memory a while ago, and I've had an extended battery and a battery dock since I got it. Still goes 3.5 hours on battery. I even installed a modified version of W

I had the Gen1. Assuming the Gen2 was the same, I think this is better. The T14 would creak if I picked it up by one corner, and it felt like a lot of weight for that corner to hold. No concern doing that with the Z13. It's easier to take the bottom panel off the Z13, no annoying clips and pry-tool