In the next few months, I'm thinking about picking up a 'clunker' of a refurbished laptop to use for work (and Nostr, of course).
The plan is to use it mostly for doing web-based tasks, but it wouldn't hurt to have a decent-sized SSD in case for the odd software I want to mess around with.
I see a lot of YouTubers and bloggers mentioning the ThinkPad T480 as the last 'best' machine. Any validity to that? Any other sturdy machines that I could use for day-to-day email, report writing, etc.?
Oh, one last thing: I intend to use Mint, Ubuntu, or something similar.
#asknostr
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