ThinkPad X270

I once found a ThinkPad X270 at my school, literally thrown into a trash container without RAM or a disk. I grabbed it and tried to revive it by installing some spare RAM from another laptop, but it didn’t turn on. I was really sad and had no idea how to fix it, so I just stored it in my room like a

I believe one needs to use the tools one needs to get the work done. I personally have a MacBook for video editing but I love my ThinkPad x270. It has opened my mind to a whole new aspect of tinkering with computers and I am really enjoying it.

your motherboard does look easy to swap. heres a cheap one on ebay For Lenovo ThinkPad X270 Motherboard CPU I5-6300U FRU 01LW729 | eBayid say upon boot up with no programs open everything should be close to 0-10 percentage. in task manager. I had a failing hard drive on my thinkpad I upgraded to SSD

The thick bezels are here to remind you that the machine is not going to implode on itself. I really recommend the laptop after 2 days of non stop usage. Today I bought a new external battery, just for the extra battery life (by the way, X270, and some other ThinkPads have a system where you have tw

Your best value option is likely to be a used well well built laptop with good community support for Linux. ThinkPad laptops are a prime example. Choose well for an excellent screen and keyboard, decent CPU and upgradeable memory. Replace HDD with SDD. May need replacement third party battery if you