Lenovo
ThinkPad X280
Based on 53 Reddit mentions
$349.97
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Best legacy budget thinkpad
for sure! With apologies for piling a bunch of more thoughts and info on: I see Wayward Locust's post about chromebooks and a thinkpad i just remembered is the 11e series. They're actually quite new, they wre built for K-12 education, and should be quite durable and just a little tiny bit on the smo
...Cory5413 in r/thinkpad
May 6, 2026 2:48 AM
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ThinkPad L15 Gen 4 - A terrible laptop with even worse aftersales support
I have the same feeling, I have one too, totally lowcost build, cheap plastics, very short battery life, again and again some issues, like battery discharges 10% per day even if its offIgnoring mainy times smart charge limit so it charges to 99% isntead 85 set in lenovo vantage..I had T14 or T14s or
...layyen in r/thinkpad
April 22, 2026 7:15 AM
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Need help deciding on a second hand ThinkPad
I’d toss up between the T480s and X280, although I’m not sure what other specs they have (display would be my primary concern as the X280 has a much lower base resolution at only 768p.. Some older AMD SKUs may also fall into this margin, these might offer a decent performance point for your stated u
...natusw in r/thinkpad
May 20, 2025 5:37 AM
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Potato laptop
I bought a similarly specced Lenovo ThinkPad x280 for 900 bucks last year... Rm2k is way too overpriced. Not to mention you can actually buy a new decent laptop at that price.
life_notgood in r/malaysia
August 13, 2025 1:28 AM
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