my recommendation: a second-hand, 16 year old acer aspire one that runs windows xp, ms-dos and the 32bit version of puppylinux...if it works it works. (yeah its just my setup)

been working flawlessly on original hardware since 2008

i even play games and make music on that thing

[–] ssm@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Lol ok enjoy your lenovobios and being trapped on x86 forever

[–] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What's wrong with x86 all of a sudden?

ARM is still pretty damn experimental compared to x86.

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Bullshit mostly. x86 is fine & has been getting a lot more power efficient (if you can get a work day’s worth of power, you have met the benchmark). Wake me up when RISC-V is here.

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[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago (14 children)

Good luck opening more than like 5 browser windows on those old thinkpads

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[–] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I got some used chromebooks on Ebay for $40 each (3855u, 4gb ram, 32gb ssd), I would recommend them if you don't have any money to spend on a laptop. It's not going to be running anything super demanding, but its shocking how much it can do.

Some things I have run on it and had a decent experience: Blender, FreeCAD, Portal, TMNF through proton, Celeste, Minecraft Java, MuseScore

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