I saw the end coming so I bought a refurbished laptop–another Dell. At first, I was happy with the replacement laptop but it kept crashing so I sent it back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yesterday I ordered another refurbished laptop, a Thinkpad this time. I’ve liked the Thinkpads that I’ve used in the past; they have the best laptop keyboards. The new (refurbished) Thinkpad is a core i7 but many generations newer; this one is a gen6, which makes it five years old. I plan to put Linux on the new laptop so it should perform well. I got it for $389. <\/p>\n\n\n\n My 10-year-old Dell XPS laptop finally died. With its core i7, it was pretty hot back in 2013. I replaced its Windows OS with Linux some years ago and it was still performing acceptably. There were issues, of course. 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