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What second hand laptop should I buy?

My use case: I’m an engineering student, I need something with a lot of storage, hopefully SSD (right not I have MatLab, Anaconda and KiCAD taking up most of my 128 GB HD, and I had to uninstall the STM32 cube IDE from lack of storage), and reasonable processing performance so I can actually run these things at a reasonable...

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I have a Thinkpad T480 and I’m very happy with it. I paid about $250 (~£190) for mine. It came with 16 GB RAM, but is upgradable to 32 GB. The one I bought came with a 128 GB SSD, but I swapped it out for a 1 TB drive which added another $100 (~£76) to my initial investment. This model originally came with Windows 10 and most on the market will come with it, but can be updated to 11 if desired.

I personally have not used Win11 since they made some changes I don’t like, so I can’t really give you advice on that aspect.

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Thank you for the correction. I try to be as accurate as possible when providing information, but I misremembered the specs.

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Yo dawg, I heard you like emulating, so I put an emulator in your emulator so you can emulate while you emulate.

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The best I can offer for your original question is to delete everything you don’t want and then run something like BleachBit to shred the data. As for the second question, if a computer originally came with Windows then it should automatically activate after reinstalling.

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You should look into Rockbox. It’s an open source alternative firmware for a variety of portable media players that adds features such as support for more file formats (and it runs Doom). As for which supported players I’d recommend then maybe a flash modded iPod or an AIGO Eros Q or K (also sold as the HIFI WALKER H2, Surfans F20, or AGPTek H3).

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More or less. I think there are some differences between the Q and K based models, but they’re close enough to not require separate ports of Rockbox.

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If you listen closely to the buzzing it makes you can hear the Game Boy begging for the sweet release of death.

In all seriousness though, I’m more than happy with the available “off-the-shelf” Game Boy mods. Not to mention that things like this are way beyond my skill level.

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Are you referring to a drawing tablet? If so, then a good number of ones from the better known brands are supported by the kernel by default. Your safest bet though is Wacom. Wacom is definitely the best supported brand, but it tends to be more expensive than other brands (such as XP-pen and Huion). Non-Wacom branded tablets may require a little bit more initial configuration, like adding a udev rule (I had to do that for my Huion Inspiroy Ink).

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