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anyone's ever had experience with Lenovo Ideapad s400?
I was going to buy an used T61 from the internet just for work/college, so basically I would install debian or buntu and maybe, if needed dualboot win7 , mostly to program shit, use MS/Libreoffice and 4chan browsing. however, my friend told me he has a notebook sitting unused and he is willing to sell it to me for the same price as the T61 I was going to buy. Its a lenovo s400, I've tested it a bit and it is in tiptop conditions and since he is not a complete normie-retard I am pretty sure he didn't fuck it up somehow by dropping it or whatever. So is it worth it? is this s400 decent? I know that the specs are obviously better in the s400 but is there something to I should watch out for in this specific model? (notebook virgin, never had one and don't really like them, but actually need one now).
the price of a brand-new s400 is ~1700 in my currency, the T61 and consequently the price of my friend's notebook for me is 350, which is pretty fucking cheap for a notebook here, specially for a almost new and recent one
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Build quality on this looks shoddy as hell. Max RAM is 4gb which is piss poor. Plus no trackpoint.
If you're spending 350 on this, you're spending too much. You're better off with a T420 which you can easily get for the same price.
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>>59308255
not american, so its not U$ 350. my currency is very fucked up right now, so 350 in my currency is around U$ 100. for comparison, a brand-new T420 is around 1200 in my currency, so almost 4x as much as the s400. As I said, I was going for a T61 with even less RAM. the things I will use the notebook for will hardly pass 2~3gb RAM usage
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>>59308767
In that case, you're the best judge. You can definitely do worse for that price. If you're not doing anything too performance heavy, you should be fine. Although I would probably go for the T61 because Thinkpad aesthetic desu.
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>>59308211
You just don't buy Ideapad. The quality is just not there.
Buy an old Thinkpad or Macbook.
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>>59308211
I can tell you from experience that IdeaPads suck.
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>>59308767
>brand new
>t420
what did he mean by this?
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