Travel laptop recomendations

[TheFu]

I bought the laptop. I decided it will sit at home and I'll travel with my think pad T470, but on the T470 i'll upgrade the RAM and storage.

Which one? What are the specs? Price paid?

Don't leave us hanging!

[sports fan Matt]

Sorry needed coffee. Bought the one shown on Ebay for mainly three reasons.

1. I don't need the latest & greatest. This machine will be a Ubuntu install. I looked through inspiron stories last night and was horrified at the many things broken.

2. My brother is getting married so $ is tight. In 5 weeks I must not only attend the wedding, but pay for lodging , meals etc.

3. While I do understand inspiron would run a heck of a lot faster, I do not do any heavy resource tasks ~ I surf forums, email and listen to music.

4. I do in time plan to upgrade the storage and RAM to at least 1 TB and 512 GB

[TheFu]

There were 2 ebay specials above. Which one?

No laptop or desktop systems will support 512GB of RAM. You'll need fairly new, expensive, servers for that.

1TB storage is easy. $70 for a quality SSD. But really, why not use a microSD card for add-on data storage? Those are $10 and more than fast enough for video playback.

Dell Inspiron is a different line than Latitude. Inspiron is "whatever parts we have today" and Latitude is "these parts, guaranteed for 3 yrs". They are the difference between a home purchase pre-installed with an OS and a business purchase where you might buy 20,000 of the same laptops and 100% need them to be identical with the exact same image of any OS to be mass installed, patched, etc. Completely different ideas.

In general, avoid Inspiron and get Latitude.

I understand the wedding costs. Few months ago, a wedding cost me about $2000 for 2 days in a hotel and updated clothing. I did look sharp, if I do say so myself.

[sports fan Matt]

The one I oringally posted. https://www.ebay.com/itm/156140421967?itmmeta=01J5TMP6RNGNJX8DQNN46WTQG6&ha %20sh=item245ab1c34f:g:toAAAOSwHstmAvjz[/url. My budget was EXTREMELY tight.

I'll upgrade the SSD eventually.

[sports fan Matt]

$70 isnt bad at all, I'll look into it.

[sports fan Matt]

Now the key question. Do I dual boot this machine or just leave it for Ubuntu. Mint is on my T470

[sports fan Matt]

Based on my testing ~ and it was close, the Dell wins with 5 hours 55 minutes battery life. The Lenovo lasts 5 hours 5 minutes.

[Shibblet]

4. I do in time plan to upgrade the storage and RAM to at least 1 TB and 512 GB

I assume you meant 1TB / 32GB? (SSD/RAM)

I challenge anyone (especially Linux users) to need more than 32g of RAM on a Laptop made for travel!
Most people are perfectly fine with 16g.

CHALLENGE, I SAY! PROVE YOUR MEMORY USAGE!

Based on my testing ~ and it was close, the Dell wins with 5 hours 55 minutes battery life. The Lenovo lasts 5 hours 5 minutes.

Dell makes a solid Laptop. I worry about some of the new Lenovo's, because they have blocked Linux installation.
https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingLapto...nd_acceptable/

[sports fan Matt]

Yes I did.