I’ve been trying to find P1/X1 Extreme (Gen 1/2/3) and X1 Carbon laptops (Gen 7/8) that come in the configuration of Intel 8th/9th/10th gen (newer is better) in i7, or the AMD Ryzen equivalent of it, 16/32GB of RAM, 512GB/1TB of storage space, FHD display and preferably 2xSODIMM, if possible. No dedicated GPU, because I’m not going to be playing games. Also, no operating system, because I’ll be using Linux. So far, this effort hasn’t been going well. What will improve the success rate for finding a refurbished/renewed device?
The budget isn’t finalized, but I’ve imagined it to be somewhere in the ₹30k-40k range. I’d prefer if it were in ₹20k-30k. Country is India, by the way, and I am open to getting them imported, as long as I can get it for cheap, and have it last for almost four years, and get parts readily available. I’ve tried looking in DesertCart and UBuy and they’re expensive in both the sites. E-Bay does not have enough devices.
Don’t buy refurbished, buy a regular ass used laptop and skip paying for someone else to wipe the computer for you. You’re not paying for an OS when you buy used/refurbished. They’re just using the license key that’s already stored in the bios.
Also the P1/X1E and the X1 carbon are completely different classes of machines. The T14s is a much closer fit to an X1 than the thin portable workstation that’s the P1. Good luck finding a P1 with no GPU because that’s 90% the point of this laptop.
I wanted to get the P1/E1 Extreme, specifically the Gen 3 series laptops with either an i5 or i7, because their RAM and SSD can be upgraded in the future. Since I’ll be building some Linux apps locally, it would be really handy for me in the future to move from 16 to 32GB, and about the storage, I’ll move from 256GB to 1TB. I’ve tried looking for them, with or without the Linux-only, iGPU, RAM or SSD constraint - be it open box, used, renewed or refurbished. Couldn’t find a lot of cheap options. So far, there’s a Lenovo X13, but it won’t be upgradable in the future.