just need it for school so nothing fancy
Are you saying you want it to charge with USB C, or it just has to have a USB C port?
Almost every laptop released recently has a USB C port so if that’s all it needs, you have tons of options
Many budget ones don’t charge with USB C tho
charge usb c
HP 840 G3 and G4. They’re pretty cheap refurbished on amazon and they’re very durable laptops. We used them for all of the remote workers during covid. And they have one USB-C port
It’s has a normal charging port that take the small blue HP charger, and it’s USBc port can also be used for charging. I recommend double checking the specs of whatever you’re buying just to make sure I’m not imagining it.
is that a charging port
You can get a cheap converter to USB C. If used doesn’t bother you, you could get something cheap on govdeals.
usb c for charging
Get yourself an old ThinkPad if you don’t care about speed.
Older, used computers will be slow, but if you know how to give em a good refresh, you can get em running well.
Install Linux
That was my intent, yeah. But not everyone has the knowledge on how to install Linux and may be intimidated by its reputation of not being user friendly - not everyone knows how user friendly it can be.
You don’t have to buy a computer so old that it requires a lightweight Linux distro. You can find quad-core i5s with 16GB of RAM for around $300. That will run Windows 11 just fine.
You can get a computer that good for that cheap nowadays? I must look in the wrong places for em…
Keep an eye out for Dell Refurbished to run one of their 50% off deals. Recently they had 9th-gen i5s with those specs in that price range, and they’re refurbished business laptops so generally higher build quality than consumer hardware.
