thanks will look into them! looks like Dell Latitude 5420, Intel Quad-Core i5-1145G7, 16GB DDR4 RAM, 256GB SSD, for about $250 will be an upgrade to be 10year old lenovo!
lol I got a Dell Latitude 5420 with nearly the same specs, mine only came with 8GB of ram so I upgraded it to 32GB. I did that though almost 2 years ago when prices were sane though.
I’ve also loaded mine with Kubuntu, it came with Linux Mint though which was cool.
you still run Kubuntu on your dell? Other folks will have to use it and mint is straight forward to use so I will just go with that again. I did find a better price through for about $160 shipped through free geek but now I gotta get a charger. It arrives this week so excited :)
Oh yeah it’s still running Kubuntu, I haven’t had any issues with it so I haven’t bothered to switch to a different distro.
That’s a damn good deal you’re getting
Having to buy the charger aftermarket ain’t an issue IMO, it just means that it’ll be availible for longer in their store lol
I will say though that the laptop might have an odd feature that may catch you up like it did me, if left off for a clike a week it will need plugged in to power on. This is a battery saving feature of those Dell Latitudes (it may be on other models too, IDK) but basically it flips a relay to disconnect the battery and prevent it from killing the battery. It only happens when it’s been sitting off though, so if you keep using it it won’t trip.
what is recommended cheap ass laptop to install mint on? Something I can get used or refurbished
The older Dell Latitude models are quite nice IMO. Like the 5000 series ones.
You can snag them for fairly cheap from Free Geek on eBay.
thanks will look into them! looks like Dell Latitude 5420, Intel Quad-Core i5-1145G7, 16GB DDR4 RAM, 256GB SSD, for about $250 will be an upgrade to be 10year old lenovo!
lol I got a Dell Latitude 5420 with nearly the same specs, mine only came with 8GB of ram so I upgraded it to 32GB. I did that though almost 2 years ago when prices were sane though.
I’ve also loaded mine with Kubuntu, it came with Linux Mint though which was cool.
you still run Kubuntu on your dell? Other folks will have to use it and mint is straight forward to use so I will just go with that again. I did find a better price through for about $160 shipped through free geek but now I gotta get a charger. It arrives this week so excited :)
Oh yeah it’s still running Kubuntu, I haven’t had any issues with it so I haven’t bothered to switch to a different distro.
That’s a damn good deal you’re getting
Having to buy the charger aftermarket ain’t an issue IMO, it just means that it’ll be availible for longer in their store lol
I will say though that the laptop might have an odd feature that may catch you up like it did me, if left off for a clike a week it will need plugged in to power on. This is a battery saving feature of those Dell Latitudes (it may be on other models too, IDK) but basically it flips a relay to disconnect the battery and prevent it from killing the battery. It only happens when it’s been sitting off though, so if you keep using it it won’t trip.