Linked is the laptop I bought today off amazon. It’s got pretty good reviews and it’s a solid upgrade from this ddr3 mechanical hdd msi I’ve been using since 2013. What spurred on the purchase is that I got a bsod a couple weeks back, explorer keeps crashing, and the drive for the last 3 days has been running at 100% nonstop.
I do plan on either doing something with linux mint or perhaps downgrading to windows 10 (since I have an actual copy of it at home).
Hope this works out! I really, really, needed an upgrade badly.
I upgraded my touchpad on mine to a glass one using the part from a newer thinkpad. I believe it was the pad from the x1 carbon.
Huge upgrade and not too expensive. I saw it on a reddit thread, found the OEM part number and then bought it off AliExpress. You do have to be careful to find one that specifically says it’s glass because sellers will list the plastic pad as compatible with the newer part number because they’re interchangeable