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Hiya, just finished some upgrades to my Lenovo ThinkPad T470, 32GB RAM, 1TB SATA SSD, 512GB NVME SSD, Intel AX210 WiFi 6E Card

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

how much are old thinkpads nowadays? im thinking of switching to one, really looks like they can hold up for 5 more years at a reasonable price

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is a 2017 Model (i5-3700U/HD 620) originally bought from a refurbisher on eBay UK for around £180 GBP with 256GB SSD and 16GB RAM, spent another £100 on the Upgrades (1x 1TB SATA SSD in the 2.5" Bay, 1x 512GB B + M Keyed NVME SSD in WWAN slot, 32GB (2x 16GB) RAM DDR4 SODIMMs and an Intel AX210 WiFi 6E Card, the latter three really cheaply from AliExpress, Primary Storage was from Amazon) also came with both batteries (Internal and external) which are 92% Capacity the thing looks hardly used