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In your opinion, what's the best cheap laptop (with USB C charging) (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Would be cool if you linked it but you don't hve to!

additional info: won't be used for gaming and i'm putting xcfe linux on it. i need it for school for basic stuff

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The repairability can't be overstated. I helped a buddy upgrade a ten year old HP laptop, and it took something like 20 screws, 8 ribbon cables, a keyboard lift and a mobo removal to upgrade the nvme drive, ram and battery. Overall time start to finish, including troubleshooting was 4 hrs, and that's after I found a guide for it.

I upgraded my thinkpad by removing 6 screws from the bottom cover. The ram,nvme and battery were all exposed and accessible. My upgrade took 10 min.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's huge. I recently replaced the screen of a friend's ThinkPad as a favour. I was a tad anxious because I've not done a repair on this scale before, but I said yes because of how famously repairable ThinkPads are.

The screen repair was way more involved than the upgrade you describe, but it didn't take me more than half an hour, and that was me being extra cautious. The great thing about a laptop that's known for repairability is the abundance of documentation you can find online, it becomes a self reinforcing cycle after a certain point