Honestly, the RAM alone seems almost worth that price.
this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2025
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Is it fully in working condition? Does it boot up?
Then yes.
This was the listing. It seems like the pricing is around $150-$250. There's a 16 GB version with the same processor, but in worse physical condition for $222 right now. Maybe just slightly lucky?
Enjoy!
That seems like a steal. The cpu is very capable and there’s plenty of RAM. And it’s a thinkpad…
Oh hey! I got just a similar one but gen 2 for $55 more (shipping killed me though).
Dang, I just got a ThinkPad T490, 16GB and 256GB for that price! Trade you?
(I love it. There's something special about an old ThinkPad.)
Wait. T490 is considered old now? For me, an "old" thinkpad is definitely pre-chicklet keyboard (*30 generation and older).
I just got a T490 for work and I'm loving it
Holy shit that's a steal, where I'm from an inferior device is 50% more expensive
That's a very good deal if it's working.
You did good. Was that Ebay or what?
It was on ebay. I was actually watching Intel versions sell then noticed the AMD version had 8 cores and was selling for around the same price, so I purchased one.
The GPU performance is likely much better on the AMD version, as well, so odds are it will be a very flexible workhorse.
Post when it arrives! I resisted buying an IdeaPad with comparable specs for $500 (although that was new).
It arrived earlier today.
I placed it next to an old 2014 13" MacBook Pro for scale.
I think it's in very good condition, I would say lightly used. The smudges from the ebay pictures are only noticeable if it's under certain lighting. It seems to perform really well. I think the value to dollar on it seems really good, and I'm very happy with it. It seems like one of the best purchases I have made for it's price.
That is awesome, good work.
jeezt chreezy buy 3 and resell 2 on Craigslist to pay for the third.
very cool, top of the line, if the battery is in good condition, it'll serve you a long time. wish lenovo went with 2x RAM slots, not just 1x. keep a lookout for cheap docks if you wanna run it with external stuff (monitors, LAN, etc.) - game changer.
heads-up, although it says 4750, that's a 3000-series Ryzen (Zen 2) and as such has intermittent linux issues wrt power management. a coupla kernel switches and/or other tweaks may be needed, dependent on the kernel your distro's using. sold mine a while ago so can't remember the deets, but overall the switches I needed for Zen 2 to reliably sleep and wake aren't needed for Zen 3 (5000 series).
I once got my hands on. Ryzen that version that kept shutting down in Fedora if you put it under any load, and sometimes just shut down for no reason... I did some googling but couldn't figure out how to keep it from happening. I tried some power state stuff, but never found the right combo.
What the heck? Here a base model T450 costs that
Damn they're still going for $200+? At least it has a lot of ram. I got my T14 gen 1 (basic bitch i5) for $200 like 2 years ago. I just replaced it with an i7 T14s gen 3 for $250.
Side note: is there a buy/sell community on Lemmy? I have a bunch of old machines I need to sell off and I don't want to sell on eBay.
This has me looking now... I have a tiny 11" blue dell inspiron with an M3 that I've been tinkering on as a dev laptop, refreshed it with Debian+XFCE but I can't replace parts on it like I should.