The place to get decent budget laptops is auction sites, second-hand marketplace listings, charities, and office clearance companies (many of whom are also listing on the auction sites).
For under £100 I got a i7 ThinkPad with 16GB RAM and the ‘Yoga’ fold capability, fully tricked out with touch screen, wacom pen, fingerprint reader and the rest - and even better it all works under Linux, even the fingerprint reader.
There’s a genuine reason the stereotype of weebs with programming socks and a used thinkpad exists.
New devices built to be cheap right from new can never compete for value against pre-owned business machines.
This is true all over the world, I think. At least that’s what my LATAM and AU/NZ friends tell me, and where I live, in the US, buying used laptops from a business liquidation is always better than the ewaste sold at the same price new.
I’m primarily using eBay, but I didn’t name names because the best option where other people are may vary.
The seller I bought from wasn’t actually an auction (though auctions can be great too) - it was a “buy it now” item from a business seller who does electrical “waste” recycling for office businesses.
Regardless of the platform, those kind of sellers are ideal because they have a lot of inventory and are more concerned with getting rid of it than they are with getting the highest price on any single item.
The place to get decent budget laptops is auction sites, second-hand marketplace listings, charities, and office clearance companies (many of whom are also listing on the auction sites).
For under £100 I got a i7 ThinkPad with 16GB RAM and the ‘Yoga’ fold capability, fully tricked out with touch screen, wacom pen, fingerprint reader and the rest - and even better it all works under Linux, even the fingerprint reader.
There’s a genuine reason the stereotype of weebs with programming socks and a used thinkpad exists.
New devices built to be cheap right from new can never compete for value against pre-owned business machines.
This is true all over the world, I think. At least that’s what my LATAM and AU/NZ friends tell me, and where I live, in the US, buying used laptops from a business liquidation is always better than the ewaste sold at the same price new.
What are some good auction sites? I haven’t ever found any that look legit.
I’m primarily using eBay, but I didn’t name names because the best option where other people are may vary.
The seller I bought from wasn’t actually an auction (though auctions can be great too) - it was a “buy it now” item from a business seller who does electrical “waste” recycling for office businesses.
Regardless of the platform, those kind of sellers are ideal because they have a lot of inventory and are more concerned with getting rid of it than they are with getting the highest price on any single item.