Amazon has a great section to buy refurb or similar devices. Good place to get a baseline. And you have recourse if DOA. However look up battery prices and consider a new battery as part of your base price On Sat, Jan 5, 2019, 2:17 PM Mark Phillips Find the laptop you can afford (ie best processor, most RAM, large hard > drive, weight and size for what you want to do with the laptop) and then > google "install mint on XXXX" where XXX = make and model of that laptop. > You will quickly see if there are any issues. If there are, pick another > one! > > Also, google the cost of a RAM upgrade and new hard drive for the model > you pick - you may be able to save some bucks on buying a laptop with > little RAM and a bad hard drive and replacing those yourself. > > Finally, if buying a used laptop from a person, install mint on a usb > stick and test if the laptop will boot from the usb stick and into mint. > > I agree with Stephen, Latitudes and Thinkpads are usually Linux friendly > > Mark > > On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 2:11 PM Stephen Partington > wrote: > >> Thinkpads do well with this. Dell latitudes also do well. If you go with >> 1 Gen older you can usually learn that things have been included already. >> That being said my brand new alienware 15 r4 required a single blacklist >> entry and no free driver installation to work like a dream. >> >> On Sat, Jan 5, 2019, 2:07 PM Joe Lowder > >>> What would y'all recommend as the best (most affordable) >>> Linux laptop to give to someone as a gift? >>> >>> One that comes with Linux (preferrably mint) pre-installed >>> and that would "just work" out of the box. >>> >>> I see a bunch or them on Amazon for under $200, but >>> wonder if any of them would "just work" out of the box, >>> no muss, no fuss. >>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss