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It's time to ditch Windows for good, since 7 was the last marginally acceptable version.

Looking at a Lenovo Ideapad 5 with the AMD CPU and discrete graphics, since I don't do a lot of gaming and I need battery vs GPU horsepower. It looks like this is a fairly happy with Linux machine, any thoughts?

It's time to ditch Windows for good, since 7 was the last marginally acceptable version. Looking at a Lenovo Ideapad 5 with the AMD CPU and discrete graphics, since I don't do a lot of gaming and I need battery vs GPU horsepower. It looks like this is a fairly happy with Linux machine, any thoughts?

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[–] [deleted] • 3 pts

I bought a refurb thinkpad from MC about 8 years ago or so that handled Linux like a champ but I'm not sure I'd buy another lenovo product again. Mainly due to it being a chinese owned company but that's just my preference though. The ideapad should suit you just fine.

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They're all made in China, so it's just a matter of having a Chinese nameplate or not. My current one may have a faulty power adapter, so I've ordered a new one to give it a try.

I have a Lenovo 3000 N200 (The one "First Day on the Internet" kid is using) and it will work, it's just even with being upgraded as far as it will go with RAM and CPU, the modern web makes the thing crawl.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

True about Chinese manufacturing but there is a difference between owned and not. I may give Toshiba/dynabook a shot once my current HPs die.

Yikes, yeah it looks like that n200 would be a bit of a slug today and I bet the battery life is next to atrocious.

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I popped it's specs up as far as they would go. A Core2Duo from an old Acer, 4GB of RAM, and a SSD.

It's ok if you're doing email, messaging, and office, it's a great travel just need to stay in touch machine. Anything else and it's not having it. Kind of the reason I don't want to go with an older machine regardless of it's compatibilities - those are already on their last legs as far as web browsing and stuff goes.