Lenovo ThinkPad 11e

Yea my Thinkpad 11e is still going and running software. That's 12 years old, now.

Lenovo Thinkpad 11e aren't junk. I own one with Ubuntu and it still serves me well. Why people in the 1st world disassemble them or throw away rather than upcycling by upgrading OS and donating to the children of the 3rd world, like OLPC used to do? Still half of population doesn't have access to computers. This is hugely missed opportunity to help poor children!

Why waste old chromebooks for fun when you could donate them to the 3rd world schools for children? Thinkpads 11e are still proper hardware, I own one. Just install the latest Lubuntu and donate to people in need rather than disposing them. It's sad that huge number of the 1st world hardware is being thrown away rather than upcycle and serve the poor people in the 3rd world.

A T42 with slackware and notion wm was my daily driver until around 2015, never really felt a need to get something newer and only did because I wanted something smaller/lighter for portability so I get a cheap $250 11e Thinkpad. Used the T42 regularly until it finally died in 2021 or 22. Miss the 4:3 screen and tiny trackpad. In just shy of 20 years the only issues I had with the T42 was a dead fan. Now I have an X13, 16 cores and NVMe still running slackware and notion, it flies. That $250 11e is still going strong, has survived 3 bike crashes and it shows.

Sure they do. The 2013 Chromebook Pixel for one. But yes, it's hit or miss. My Dell M6800 'portable workstation' has an abysmal touchpad (really, what were they thinking?), but then, since it is way too heavy to actually reside on the lap, I use a mouse (which in any case is more precise) there. So the proper question is then, why did they bother with one at all? Otoh, the cheap lenovo ThinkPad 11e has a surprisingly good one.

My Thinkpad Yoga 11e running Manjaro, got this refurbished for $160.

Older 13 inch Intel MBPs are great. I'm on a refurbished Thinkpad 11e that I paid $60 from NewEgg for upgraded to the max 8GB of ram and I'm happy with it. Obviously if you want to run something heavy like Twitter or g++ or Gnome you'll want something expensive.

I appreciate the effort to actually ask around which hardware works well with a given software, rather then buying on price/spec/style and later complaining that some feature or other isn't working. I haven't bought a laptop in years, both my Chromebook Pixel, my Dell M6800 (desktop replacement -- you wouldn't want to lug it around) and a cheap Lenovo ThinkPad 11e still work fine (the Pixel is EOL'ed so I might debianize it soonish, but the highly reflective screen and the mediocre keyboard make it unsuitable as workstation). Can't think of a Linux problem with either (the Dell was actually listed as supported by Ubuntu). I use the Dell with a mouse, as the touchpad experience is poor (regardless of OS). The ThinkPad has a surprisingly good keyboard, unfortunately the screen is rather underwhelming, else it would be an awesome network terminal. Good value in any case.