Thinkpad Yoga-12

Upgrade the RAM to 16gb, upgrade the HDD to an SSD and install Linux Mint (easy to do, using a program called "Rufus" to format a USB stick) and the machine will fairly scream. It won't be a good choice for (say) editing films, but for most uses (Chrome browser, word processing, watching movies, pla

Hell, I'm using a ThinkPad Yoga 12 I got for $80 USD cheap off ebay. Sure it's soldered memory, but slap in a 1tb hard drive and it works. ... It's a glorified type writer running Fedora but it does in fact work. lol

I would venture to say that if that MacBook has an Intel processor, you could install Linux on it and it will run faster than it is currently and with an up to date operating system. You may not need to spend any money. But, a good thinkpad, as others have mentioned is the T14 Gen 1 or 2 ThinkPad. I

You get fairly recent tech for 1/3 to 1/4 the price depending on model. T480 is 6 years old now (maybe 7)and it's still a fantastic machine for basically everything short of AI and content creation workloads. So anything newer is a cherry on top. But I also still rock a ThinkPad Yoga 12 (S1 Yoga) fo

Yoga S1? I have a Yoga 12 (a.k.a., ThinkPad S1 Yoga 12) and it's one of my favorites.

t440s? I've got a 3380m in a t430 I last used.. 30 minutes ago. and my main laptop is a i5-5200u ThinkPad Yoga 12 (Not a T-series, but I got it for 50 AUD) the Yoga 12 is not my best laptop lmao (that would be a 11320H) but it is still my main.

When I was in the market for a thinkpad yoga 12/S1 Yoga, the very first one I bought had this track pad and it SUCKED. Irredeemably so. Returned it to seller and got a refurbished one with the good track pad from newegg. Cost me about $100 more but it was worth it to me to buy it like that OOB