im looking for a laptop, and all the places im finding are sleazy as fuck or the usual suspects; newegg, amazon, walmart, bestbuy.
just want a solid machine to run xen on without giving too much of my money to billionaires. is that so hard?
im looking for a laptop, and all the places im finding are sleazy as fuck or the usual suspects; newegg, amazon, walmart, bestbuy.
just want a solid machine to run xen on without giving too much of my money to billionaires. is that so hard?
Buy a used high-end thinkpad (few years old) on ebay for a few hundred bucks. Checkout the thinkpad wiki for specs and shit. Basically you'll get a much nicer computer with a much higher build quality and easily repairable parts for far less than buying a new shit tier laptop for like 400-600 at a department store.
Basically schools and businesses buy hundreds of thinkpads and some high end Dell models every 3 or 4 years for usually 1-2k each and then resell them when they upgrade for like 200-300. Best way to get one is to go to your local colleges tech auction and buy one, but getting one on ebay will only cost a bit more.
Throw a good Linux distro on it, new battery (thinkpad batteries are good and cheap), and maybe a 1tb nvme ssd and you'll have an amazing laptop for years. I bought a used x1c gen 3 for 150$ last year and put a 100$ 1tb nvme in it and ill probably be using this thing for the next 5-10 years.