just need it for school so nothing fancy

  • N-E-N
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    401 year ago

    Are you saying you want it to charge with USB C, or it just has to have a USB C port?

    Almost every laptop released recently has a USB C port so if that’s all it needs, you have tons of options

    Many budget ones don’t charge with USB C tho

  • monsterpiece42
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    Any older Thinkpad that’s about 5-7 years old on eBay. You can get units that were high end when they came out (normal speed now) for $200-300 all day.

    I know specifically the P50’s have a thunderbolt port and you can get them with an i7 for around $250.

    • @foggy@lemmy.world
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      Yeah if specs, VMs, etc aren’t an issue you can get a banger of a Chromebook for like $150-$250

  • Dudwithacake
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    You can get a cheap converter to USB C. If used doesn’t bother you, you could get something cheap on govdeals.

  • vlad
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    71 year ago

    HP 840 G3 and G4. They’re pretty cheap refurbished on amazon and they’re very durable laptops. We used them for all of the remote workers during covid. And they have one USB-C port

    • @agent_flounder
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      Good call.

      FWIW, We’ve been using HP EliteBooks for several years now. (Maybe 840s at one point).

      Never had any issues with mine and performance has been decent. Can’t think of my coworkers ever complaining either.

      I think that’s what I would get for a cheap laptop. I found out an apple MacBook charger (USB C) can power one of these. Kind of a nice fallback.

      • @Damage@slrpnk.net
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        I don’t know about other product lines, but we are issued HP Zbooks at work, their crappy performance and quality made sure to stop me from ever buying an HP computer for myself

      • Dandroid
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        There are going to be horror stories for any brand. I personally have had nothing but bad experiences with Dell computers. But if there’s one that checks all your boxes, has great reviews, and meets your price point, I say go for it.

        That said, I do feel like I hear the worst and most frequent stories about HP.

      • vlad
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        I can’t speak for the whole company, but their older business laptops have been good in my experience. I’ve worked for an airline, and a logistics company, and in both they had HP contracts. I know that Dell laptops felt more brittle, I saw more of them come back brokwn. Also getting them refurbished doesn’t give them money, if you don’t want to do that.

    • vlad
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      It’s has a normal charging port that take the small blue HP charger, and it’s USBc port can also be used for charging. I recommend double checking the specs of whatever you’re buying just to make sure I’m not imagining it.

  • @djmarcone@lemm.ee
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    Right now the best cheap laptop I know of with usb c charging etc is the t480 and t580. A refurb or renew with an i5 and 16gb ram is around 300 or less all day long. They are cheap to buy, cheap to fix, modify, or replace and will run great now and for years to come.

    With the internal and external batteries, they can have 2 at once, they can run all day easily and then some.

    Get the 1080 screen tho.

    For $500 or less they can be had with i7 and bigger ram for more powerful duties.

    They just don’t disappoint.

  • @riley0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    The last laptop I bought is a Dell Inspiron from 2013. I got it at a ReStore (Habitat for Humanity) thrift shop for $125 ~2 yrs ago. i5 processor; built like a tank. Had to replace wifi chip b/c original was very slow. Got that on ebay for $25 (pkg of 5, but that’s the only way they came). When W10 goes away, I’ll make it a chromebook, if I haven’t first figured out how to install Linux on it. If I need a usb c port, I’ll find an adapter, as that would put less strain on my budget.

    • Garbage Data
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      41 year ago

      Older, used computers will be slow, but if you know how to give em a good refresh, you can get em running well.

        • Garbage Data
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          11 year ago

          That was my intent, yeah. But not everyone has the knowledge on how to install Linux and may be intimidated by its reputation of not being user friendly - not everyone knows how user friendly it can be.

          • @ObiGynKenobi@beehaw.org
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            You don’t have to buy a computer so old that it requires a lightweight Linux distro. You can find quad-core i5s with 16GB of RAM for around $300. That will run Windows 11 just fine.

            • Garbage Data
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              11 year ago

              You can get a computer that good for that cheap nowadays? I must look in the wrong places for em…

              • @ObiGynKenobi@beehaw.org
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                Keep an eye out for Dell Refurbished to run one of their 50% off deals. Recently they had 9th-gen i5s with those specs in that price range, and they’re refurbished business laptops so generally higher build quality than consumer hardware.