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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    8 months ago

    To add to this, if $500 is actually your budget:

    Get a good second hand laptop. I picked up a 2020 model X1 Carbon a few months ago for 🇦🇺$200 and paid another $90 for a new battery for it. Came to about $300 for a great little laptop.

    This was for the kid to take to school, so I didn’t want to be buying a $1,000 thing that he’d destroy.

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      8 months ago

      My suggestion is to get a device that can do the stuff kids want, but just barely do the things they want.

      I probably spent more time tinkering around the family computer than anything else as a kid just to get games way over-spec to run on it. Throughout that process I learned programming, hex editing, and some Linux system administration, which eventually led me to my current career.

      These days, it’s probably a lot easier to get started with a raspberry pi. But without something to motivate people to learn tech, why would they do it in the first place?

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      8 months ago

      Holy shit, that is a great deal regardless of where in the world you are. How’d you get it so cheap?

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        It had a dead battery. Didn’t hold charge at all when you unplugged it. On the second hand market, that makes this laptop ‘faulty’.

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          Dang, lucky you! Though also what in the world did the previous owner do to it to kill the battery so dead in just 3 years.

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          How is a laptop with a dead battery usable for school? Do they spend the whole time in a single classroom which has sockets?