<![CDATA[Why off-lease enterprise ThinkPads ruin the £200 consumer laptop market]]>Just wrapped up testing an off-lease ThinkPad X13 Yoga Gen 2 vs modern sub-£200 Chromebooks. It’s wild how much plastic e-waste retail stores sell at that price point when off-lease enterprise gear running Linux blows them out of the water.

Anyone else running off-lease ThinkPads for lightweight mobile setups? (Dropped a quick 2-min video spec comparison if anyone's looking at cheap refurb gear right now:

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