Need To Get A Laptop - Reccomendations?

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>>60958465
The amount of "what should I buy threads" on this board is enough to convince me that it's unlikely I'm breaking any rule. I'm not asking someone to fix my trouble. I'm asking what some good underprices machines for Software Development are.

Not sure where you live, but in my city there is a small store that sells surplus office equipment for crazy cheap. You can find business-grade laptops that have no OS for less than $80 easily. Only problem for you is no choice of form factor.

If you don't have that kind of store around you, look around auction sites for "bare-bones" laptops. I'm guessing it's going to be very difficult to find exactly what you're looking for without an OS, but it's worth a shot. If you can't find one or don't want to do it, either pray for a miracle on some Chinese site, or accept the fact that you're SOL.

>>60958957
Chicago.

>>60958453
Buy a used laptop, price is like 2x lower, there should be atleast some stores in your city that sell "refurbished laptops".

>>60958605
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>>60958465

>>60958453
One, fuck the anon who's being a cunt to you. We have a fucking thinkpad general where you can ask what laptops to get.

Two, maybe try a business if they're getting rid of old laptops or something?
You can still go second hand - issue there is HDD failure (but you have an external) and battery life is sometimes terrible - hope you like being plugged in. Or you can get a new battery.

It would help if we knew what country and what the budget is.

1. Used sandybridge thinkpad on ebay. You can get an i7 model for like $200.

2. Dell XPS 13. Does not cost $200.

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>>60959116
In Chicago. Budget is holy fuck I can't afford shit, but I could probably do a project on upwork as soon as I get something. I'm currently on an old-ass computer with a busted keyboard that I had to breakout an onscreen keyboard utility for, so, I'm lacking in dough up front.

>>60959195
If you can do freelance right away then just sell stuff you don't need. That's my only real advice for you. Get any laptop with at least i3 and 4GB of RAM. Anything is better than nothing. You could probably have some charity or something where you can dick around on their computeportable versions of the programmes you use

>>60959167
Actually not a terrible band name.
I'd prefer a Euro-DJ-Duo with a name that's something from math or physics, though, like The Graham-Schmidt Process or The Coriolis Effect.

>>60959027
I don't live in Chicago (been to Bloomingdale a few times though), but Bloomingdale has a place called Chicago Surplus Computer. Again, probably not gonna find the form factor you want, but it never hurts to look.

>>60959244
>Chicago Surplus Computer
Thanks, homeslice