A Lenovo Thinkpad T430 is probably the sweet spot for those specs and that price range. Not a ton of good listings on Amazon, but there are options in the T430 out there where you could end up with 8-16gb ram, an i5 or possibly even an i7. Those old Thinkpads have withstood the test of time.
A good alternative are Dell Latitudes, maybe around the E64xx to E65xx series. Those tended to mirror some of the features, design, and robustness of a lot of the old Thinkpads.
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Too late for not being the family IT guy.Originally Posted by beenalongtime
Thanks for the advice, and will skip the Chromebook.
"Gunfighting is a thinking man's game. So we might want to bring thinking back into it."-MDFA
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I just set up my mother's Christmas present. Her 8 year old machine went belly up. She actually booked a guy to come and look at her machine for $200, that was before parts. I told her to cancel that call and I would just get her a machine for Christmas. Black Friday Dell, 10th Gen I3 machine, with windows installed, a keyboard and a mouse $279 delivered. I hooked up her new tower to her old monitor and life is good.
By the way, I KNOW THAT THE GUY who wanted to charge my Mom $200 to look at her machine was going to charge her $XXX for parts and it would cost more to fix her old machine than the new one that I bought her.
Good luck with finding a good deal for your Mother-in-law.
FWIW I think that what he meant was that a $250 was the equivalent of a Chromebook with windows, and that the combination is not good. And, my inference was, just get the chromebook with... chrome? on it.Too late for not being the family IT guy.
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I got that, but Chrome on Chromebook would be too easy. In my wife's case, a supplementary requirement has been added, so Windows is now necessary.
"Gunfighting is a thinking man's game. So we might want to bring thinking back into it."-MDFA
Beware of my temper, and the dog that I've found...
Gotcha.
In my case it appears that the “windows isn’t windows anymore, word isn’t word anymore” argument has worked.
Now I get to start all over again looking for $300 chromebooks that are in stock...
And, of course, if there’s the slightest problem now it’ll become “I don’t know why we couldn’t have just gotten a windows computer like she asked for”
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Reminds me of work.
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