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And of course I'm installing Linux on it. Install went well, even the fingerprint sensor built in to the laptop works.

Mostly this will be a school and DND machine but always nice to have a functional laptop for whatever else I may need it for.

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[–] mcheva@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I hear that a lot but I got a new e14 amd on special it was so cheap. It's not the most powerful but i put 32gbs of ram and a 2tb nvme in it runs arch on it and its a cool little machine.

The ram and the hard drive cost more than the laptop. Would I have bought this thing for retail? Prob not, I resent giving money to Lenovo directly.

[–] dubs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 14 hours ago

Yup, it's hard to justify supporting Lenovo, but work buys mine, so I'm not gonna complain too much about it.