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A comment on Ask HN: Are there contemporary notebooks up for tinkerers?.

Re:Ask HN: Are there contemporary notebooks up for tinkerers? by dtx1 on Sunday August 22, 2021 @12:30PM (#28266837)
Bought a DELL Latitude E5470 Core i5-6440HQ on ebay for 400€. Came with all the Bells and Whistles, Touchscreen, LTE etc. Upgraded to 16 gigs of ram, new 1tb m.2 SSD, new battery, repasted it with mx2 and it looks like it was unused when i got it. Literally not a single scratch. It's now my qubes os workstation and i feel like it was a pretty great deal with perfect qubes os support
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Re:Ask HN: Are there contemporary notebooks up for tinkerers? by siwyd on Sunday August 22, 2021 @02:10PM (#28267930)
Just picked up a mint condition E7470 (i5) with 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD and a new battery for €230. Decent Linux-friendly machine that should last quite a few more years normally. Dell Latitude machines are always worthwhile to consider, both new and second hand.
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Re:Ask HN: Are there contemporary notebooks up for tinkerers? by dtx1 on Sunday August 22, 2021 @06:13PM (#28270176)
sounds like a really good deal!
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