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Reddit mentions of Lenovo ThinkPad T410 Intel Core i5 2.5GHz 4GB RAM 320GB HDD Windows 7 Professional
Sentiment score: 2
Reddit mentions: 5
We found 5 Reddit mentions of Lenovo ThinkPad T410 Intel Core i5 2.5GHz 4GB RAM 320GB HDD Windows 7 Professional. Here are the top ones.
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This refurbished product is tested and certified to look and work like new. The refurbishing process includes functionality testing, basic cleaning, inspection, and repackaging. The product ships with all relevant accessories, and may arrive in a generic box
Specs:
| Color | Black |
| Height | 5 Inches |
| Length | 14 Inches |
| Weight | 0.1 Pounds |
| Width | 18 Inches |
> I am a student so I have access to Dreamspark for Microsoft Windows Server.
Buy something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-ThinkPad-2-5GHz-Windows-Professional/dp/B00S1UIG9S
Exercise your Google-Fu and identify the largest memory kit it will accept, and jam it full of 8GB or 12GB of RAM.
A 320GB HDD is adequate for somewhere between 2 and 4 VM's if you keep things super-small.
Install Windows Server 2012R2 Data Center edition on it.
Use Hyper-V to create a Windows Server 2012R2 Standard server, and a Windows 7 Pro client as VMs.
Make the Standard Server into a domain controller.
Join the Win7 client to the domain.
Experiment.
Alternately, if you are unable to invest $200-300 in a test platform.
Amazon AWS Free-Tier is good for at least a year. Go nuts with all VMs.
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https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-ThinkPad-2-5GHz-Windows-Professional/dp/B00S1UIG9S/ref=sr_1_5?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1479484961&sr=1-5&keywords=refurbished+thinkpad
If you're open to refurbished, then a used ThinkPad T410 should be a good option. I would get at minimum an i5 processor. It should be able to run old games on lower settings. It appears that some sellers already have Windows 7 as the OS, which you seem to prefer.
Can you recommend a good thin-and-light? I don't know hardware much at all, but I would love something more carry-able.
I learned Illustrator and Photoshop on this brick. (This was 2015-16) It was a good brick. Like a brick, heavy, blocky, had no battery life to speak of, and was incredibly slow processing images of any size or complexity. Also like a brick, it was reliable and unbreakable - A month after I got it, at the airport, TSA dropped the laptop bag from the conveyor belt onto a concrete floor. You couldn't tell it had been dropped. It was great. I miss that brick.
Then I upgraded to this, I think. It was okay. Mine didn't have the 1tb hard drive listed on that site, but it did have 8gb ram, which was way better. It ran objectively better, but felt less sturdy and reliable. I didn't like or dislike it, particularly.
Now I've got one of these. It is amazing, it runs both AI and PS way better, but it's a bit bigger than feels comfortably portable.
The running theme with my laptops is that they're old, heavy hand-me-downs. Eventually, I'd like something with at least the middle level of performance, but that I can comfortably carry around all day. I have no clue whether this is feasible or affordable.
How does this look? https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-ThinkPad-2-5GHz-Windows-Professional/dp/B00S1UIG9S/ref=sr_1_5?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1473813655&sr=1-5&keywords=Thinkpad+t420