Hi,

A problem I have been coming up against is that a lot of the newer, budget Windows laptop (which I will immediately replace with my distribution of choice upon receipt) have memory soldered on the motherboard. This is a decision which brings the utmost distate to my mouth; I’m looking for budget laptops around the $300 mark (new) that let me upgrade their parts. Which models should I be looking at?

I am aware that the used market is fairly decent right now but I’d like to take a look at what’s coming up alongside looking at used gear. Thanks.

  • Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    And don’t forget that someone running Linux might need to have a Windows VM for some situations. So you need to have at least 8Gb of RAM to be able to allocate 4Gb to this Virtual Machine.

    Otherwise if you just use Linux 4 might be enough but really limiting.

    • Jumuta@sh.itjust.works
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      6 months ago

      I agree that it’s limiting, but I’d argue that the other things I mentioned are more limiting.

      my point isn’t that 4gb of ram is fine, it’s that the other things i mentioned are worse.