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.
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.
MSRP of the X1E is about twice what the X1 non E is.
TDP wise they’re also wildly different. Idk what the Gen. 1-3 are, but my Gen. 4 has a 109 watt PL1 and 130 something watt PL2. From notebook check review the X1c Gen. 8 can only sustain about 18 watts under load. They are wildly different machines despite the similar name.
If money is a concern then go for the standard T14. They sell a metric fuck ton of them which means they’re going to be cheaper used. The X1c is the MacBook of the thinkpad line. Since they aren’t the “thin and light” ultrabook they have much more room for the CPU to run at full speed. My base model T14 Gen. 1 with its i5 can run at max turbo speed indefinitely. (About 25-30 watts, twice the X1c) And the T14 with its one slot of ram is capable of upgrading 40 gigs of ram unlike the X1 that’s soldered only. Here in the USA I got my T14 for $200 about 1.5 years ago. It still had 6 months of its factory warranty left. An X1 of that same generation would be at least twice that price, and a P1 would probably be 10x the price.