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Hey all - what’s your experience with refurb Lenovo laptops for Linux from companies/shops that specialize in this as a service? I’m looking at LinuxPusher.dk but am also curious about other EU-based shops. It seems like a good, affordable way to get a Linux machine if you’re a novice, like me (some experience with Ubuntu and Kubuntu about 10 years ago).

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[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

What's a model you could stuff the most RAM into? I'd like a 4th Proxmox node I could replicate to and take offsite, but I don't need a pile of redundant storage on it. Something I could get 128Gb into would be awesome.

[–] glitching@lemmy.ml 0 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

T480 can take 64 GB (2x 32 GB); no idea if more is possible. I imagine newer models could but I struggle to remember seeing 64 GB SO-DIMMs... P15 can fit four sticks so that should be possible, but them things have beefy CPUs, are rather large, and also have Nvidia graphics so dunno how low-power you can make those.

you're kinda outside of the intersection of cheap and still capable with that spec. do make a write-up if you succeed, that sounds interesting.