Very Good - Refurbished Lenovo Thinkpad X260 Core i5-6200U 2.30GHz 8GB 256GB SSD £106.24 with code at newandusedlaptops4u via eBay

Interested in the little more. Next gen was £224 on another post, so more than double the price. However if you have a deal for a little more, please post.

I've been using this screen size and resolution on a laptop since 2013 (Latitude e6230, typing on it now) - that said I do run it with an external screen. I also have a thinkpad of this resolution but with an i5 3 generations behind the one here - multi-desktop support (windows 10 or higher) or using, say, Debian with KDE Plasma makes this much more plausible. It's great for pickup-and-use casual use in that sense; I use mine (x230T) in bed when I can't move very much (I have a back injury and some days I'm just too immobile). Sure, 1080p is preferable and IPS is a BIG bonus but it's not that unworkable, instances of popup boxes exceeding that vertical resolution are relatively few generally speaking.

That was what I was thinking of when I said a ‘spend a little more’ but I think they’ve sold out now? X280 is slimmer and lighter but RAM is fixed unlike the X260.

Really annoying that they won't ship to the Highlands or Northern Ireland. In some cases it's plain ignorance as Royal Mail will collect and deliver a parcel of this size weighing between 2 and 5kg, 24hr delivery for less than £8 incl tracking. Evri, I think, charge about £9, the same amount for the UK. I'd be happy to pay the difference but when I've enquired there's usually no answer or 'we have a contract with a carrier and they charge £15 for delivery to the Highlands'. That's on top of the 'free carriage'.

Anyway after my rant, I wanted to say I have this laptop and I think it's a good choice for anyone wanting a small work machine. The docking stations are reasonably priced at £25 and allow you to leave the external monitor, mouse and keyboard in place if i need to take the laptop anywhere. There's also plenty of USB sockets and options for external monitors. There are also USB docking stations which will work for other laptops should you upgrade.

Open office

It’s not all their laptops with the code available. Last week it was 20% off everything they sold, now it’s 15% selected items only.

Perfect for running Office , Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc. Some of us don't play games or video editing.
This will browse the web with no problems. I actually use my computers to create wealth for me. Even still use a DOS database which runs perfectly under VDOS and holds ctitical information going back 25 years.

It could easily run Linux, and I think there is a still a custom Linux Distribution for installing only Chrome onto it but for the life of me, I can't remember the name of it.

EDIT - It's called Chrome OS Flex, and the X260 is supported - see links below.

Certified models list - ChromeOS Flex Help

Chrome OS Flex - List of Certified Devices that Support Chrome OS Flex!

How To Install Chrome OS Flex - A Step By Step Installation Guide - YouTube (edited)

The cpu is really trash TBH.

Not great either, but cheap is cheap.

The original maby.

The original maby. (edited)

Glad to help.

I've got something similar as well and while it's generally pretty bad I think it's actually very good for video playback like on YouTube.

I reckon it'd play 4k 60fps videos.

Buy a Microsoft 365 subscription and download it, you get it from here office.com/ - there are 'other ways' as well.

Interested to see definition difference of a word document. As I said, not a high def cinema experience.

It will come back into stock at some point, so just keep an eye out for a post here or monitor ITZOO.

Thanks, just advised it won't easily.

Possibly

Maybe

I wonder (edited)

Not until 12th May when I first looked.