Writing from a 7 year old Thinkpad I got this year as a backup computer. Could do with a RAM upgrade because I find it using swap often, but actually it’s still pretty fast. Best chassis quality I’ve seen outside of Macbooks - and I’ve touched thousands of laptops, I used to refurb them for a bulk refurb company. I intentionally got the first generation where Intel got their heads out of their asses and gave us 4 cores on i5 and i7 U-series, since it was a significant performance bump from the previous gen, but still very cheap compared to newer ones.
Writing from a 7 year old Thinkpad I got this year as a backup computer. Could do with a RAM upgrade because I find it using swap often, but actually it’s still pretty fast. Best chassis quality I’ve seen outside of Macbooks - and I’ve touched thousands of laptops, I used to refurb them for a bulk refurb company. I intentionally got the first generation where Intel got their heads out of their asses and gave us 4 cores on i5 and i7 U-series, since it was a significant performance bump from the previous gen, but still very cheap compared to newer ones.
I use
ArchNixOS btw.