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My lappy has bitten the dust, and I'm in the market for a laptop. I'm thinking about going Thinkpad.

I only plan on this being for web browsing, text editing, coding, etc. Any gaming is done on my desktop.

What would be a good Thinkpad model? I do t mind getting an older/refurbished one. Haven't been on the laptop market in nearly 8 years, so I don't know what to look for anymore

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[–] Darkrai@kbin.social 71 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (23 children)

If you want to support Linux devs and continued development, I would buy from System76, Tuxedo Computers, or even Framework.

If you're going to buy used then yeah the Thinkpad is fine.

[–] miningforrocks@lemmy.ml 37 points 9 months ago (20 children)

Framework laptops are op buy it once use it for ever

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

I love the idea of framework but they're so expensive for the hardware you get

I get why that is and I will surely at some point end up with one but might wait til they're more readily available second hand

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