I got 150€ as a birthday gift and thought that combined with the small amount of money I have, I might just have enough to get an old used laptop. The thing is, I’m not tech savvy and don’t know what kind would be a good choice.
I’d want something old enough to have a DVD slot. Other requirements are having space and battery life, though I don’t think I can have very high standards on my budget. I’d want something that lasts a long time, not some planned obsolence bs.
Are Thinkpads any good? I have been using one for school and think that a Thinkpad might be okay if it just didn’t run Windows. I have been thinking about getting an older Thinkpad and downloading Linux on it, but from what I have heard, Linux seems to be complicated for someone who is not that good with tech. Any thoughts?
Sorry, what’s an SSD and why is it better than a hard drive?
SSD stands for Solid State Drive. Hard drives have spinning disks, they wear out much faster, especially in portable devices like a laptop. They are also MUCH slower than SSD’s. System responsiveness is going to be way better with an SSD. Just changing HDD to SSD, a super slow, nearly unusable system, can become completely usable for day to day activities.