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I got a lower-end Asus laptop a few years ago and it's starting to show its age. The laptop is not completely unusable yet, so I can still use it for a few more months. I would prefer to spend $500 or less on a laptop, though it may be hard to find a good one without going to the used market. I'm looking for something that is sturdy, has a good battery life, good hardware compatibility with Linux, and has 16 gigs of RAM. I do not need anything crazy powerful, just enough for some light gaming (games such as TF2 and Gmod come to mind) and potentially AutoCAD.

I got a lower-end Asus laptop a few years ago and it's starting to show its age. The laptop is not completely unusable yet, so I can still use it for a few more months. I would prefer to spend $500 or less on a laptop, though it may be hard to find a good one without going to the used market. I'm looking for something that is sturdy, has a good battery life, good hardware compatibility with Linux, and has 16 gigs of RAM. I do not need anything crazy powerful, just enough for some light gaming (games such as TF2 and Gmod come to mind) and potentially AutoCAD.

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I got a Lenovo t490 off of Amazon. It was part of their refreshed pool. It comes with 16 gigs on board and then I added another 8. I also swapped out the hard drive and put on Linux but I kept the windows hard drive. Battery life is so so and I'm not sure how it would do with gaming. But I paid sub $300 for it.

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I'm a little iffy on buying anything used on Amazon, but I will definitely take that into consideration.

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I've gotten hard drives, processors, memory, and GPUs off of Amazon refresh stock. Good, cheap shit that not only has a warranty, but doesn't need to use it.

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they'll also rotate in massive discounts on and off over the year the akro mills company so sometimes those are sold much cheaper and the used sellers reduce price way further. Such a simple but effective workshop project

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I definitely got four sent to the house and only one work well enough to keep. That's probably what you have to do. I don't use it everyday but it seems to work well enough for what I need which is not that much.