What is the lowest-power-draw laptop I can buy (used) for around $50-$75? I'd use an RPi or other SBC but I need a full keyboard and display for this application. My X200 Thinkpad is too much of a hog, but I've been thinking about an X140e or X130e. Maybe there are better options, though. Any ideas?
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Christopher Davis
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Luis Russell
Stay away from the x131. A lot of people like it but comeon. Seriously?
Get an x60 t42 or t60 you wont regret it
Thats what you want to hear right? Stop procrastinating and dive in user. Theres tons of good software to get ur new laptop flying securely around the chans
Sebastian Sanchez
Own the x131e i3 version and it does a really decent job. Plopped a few games on it and they run like a champ (older ones) and its pretty durable. Had a t420 but the size wasnt really right for what i wanted in a laptop. It also has mad battery life assuming you arent using a chink tier battery
Oliver Lopez
I don't think you understand my requirements... this is going to be an always-on computer that needs a display and keyboard because I won't be able to ssh into it. It needs to be low-power to keep my bill low and to give max runtime for when power goes out and it needs to run on battery. Of those models you listed, T60 has about 15W idle and T42 and X60 have about 10W idle.. that's not going to cut it. They are in the price range, though.
Thanks, user. Do you know your screen-off idle power usage?
Daniel Edwards
RPis have 4 usb and 1 HDMI ports right on board user.
Caleb Torres
not going to be setting up a monitor as well, that would take too much space
Carter Watson
Just get an Atom notebook.
Liam Sanders
Go to a pawn shop. I picked up a laptop with a core i7 and 8gb of ram for $100. That or just any junkyard laptop.
You can pick up an older Dell inspiron 1525. I've done a lot of work on one of those only 70 watts. Not sure what you are going for on low power.
Are you looking for low wattage at maximum draw are you talking about just buying a piece of shit laptop?
Kayden Gutierrez
Why look for SBC when you opted for a laptop?
AOD270 works its charm for most tasks sporting a quadcore.
Or if you're going SBC setup just buy intel NUCs.
Ayden Gray
use cheap android tablet and install termux.
Connor Bell
You are not going to do much better than what you already own. First you should forget about your power bill unless you are a serious jew, at peak power a 35W CPU like typical in laptops from around the X200 times will cost you like $2 a month.
For battery in emergency, an X200, which you already own, and which I also own, lasts around 5 hours on max brightness watching Chinese cartoons with a fresh 9-cell battery when I have used it. If the screen is off and you're not doing anything I wouldn't say it's too farfetched for it to be 9 or more hours. You can extend that by getting an Ultrabase and the Ultrabay battery (Battery 42) which gives you probably %25 more juice.
If that's too much to deal with then yeah just get a shitty Atom netbook. I guess the X131e might be alright even if you can get a decent healthy battery with it.
Cameron Reyes
just plug a screen and a full keyboard into the RPi or other SBC
problem solved
the official rasberry pi screen is $75 I guess, but 5 minutes of searching on amazon; amazon is filled with chinkshit that comes with a screen and a case for ~$30
I don't think it's getting any lower power or cheaper than that.
Connor Reed
get a car battery and an inverter or adapter to use the DC directly
Jordan Lopez
You can plug a car battery directly into the charging port of your laptop. Make SURE to get your polarity right or it will blow up completely, and don't short anything out. It will run off the car battery, but won't be able to charge the laptop battery.
THIS ONLY works if your normal charger is 13-22V. Anything lower will blow up and anything higher might not work at all.
Lincoln Morgan
i wouldn't trust that at all; it would be an interesting project but I would want a fuse or something in between and controlling the voltage.
easy mode would just be use an inverter and plug it in like anything else but the conversion would waste a bunch of power
Caleb Phillips
An used netbook. I'm pretty sure there's tons of e-waste netbooks that are still perfectly usable.
Alternatively, an android tablet with a cheap OTG or bluetooth keyboard. What do you need this for?
Charles Thomas
this sounds wrong, why
it should be
"A used"
Gabriel Thomas
and that just tells you how the each writer pronounces "historical".
Logan Bell
Netbooks?
some eeePCs are around 10W, comparable with some power hungry SBCs
silentpcreview.com
Alternatively get a Raspberry pi laptop / laptop kit.
Luis Gomez
eeePC = Atom CPU
Nathan Wood
If you're looking for longevity away from mains power, you should be looking at batteries not laptops. 5v power banks are cheap and suitable for powering any Android tablet. You can also build your own lithium battery pack and output an arbitrary voltage to power whatever laptop you might want.
Cooper Cox
This. If you can combine that with with some low powered arm based system that's able to power itself on and off or go into sleep mode you can get a computer that runs for days off battery. There are some boards that have the circuitry for connecting, supervising and charging batteries directly on board, cubietruck comes to mind.
Elijah Jenkins
Sure, I'll do that in between checking out that cool trick with the hot spoon and blowing magic crystals.
Joshua Myers
12 volts is 12 volts but it's a terrible idea with something that's capable of dump 600 amps on your port.
Jason Bennett
Only voltage matters you fucking sped, the powered circuit's resistance limits the current by itself
If you don't know Ohm's law by heart you shouldn't be allowed to post on Zig Forums
Ayden Walker
Atom's also have the benefit of not being infected with the ME botnet.
Jonathan Roberts
I'm not falling for your schemes you tricky chink.
Dylan Richardson
Well then make a project of connecting a keyboard and screen, and 3D print a laptop-like housing for it. You're no fun.
Evan Roberts
MODS
Anthony Howard
*MSDOS
Sorry mods
Joshua Robinson
I need an ethernet and a full-size USB port as well, so I need a real laptop.
10W is what my Thinkpad can do, but I'd like to go lower.
thanks anons
based dyslexic
Julian White
MSDOS = FAGS
Dominic Perry
Is that so? I actually had no idea. I'll look into it but do you know of any sites worth reading?
James Roberts
Have you installed gentoo and removed as much bloat as possible and used undervolt.py to underclock and you disabled all the cores but the needed one on battery? I can get as low as 7w web browsing with a shitty gaymer laptop with a dedicated gpu that doesn't even have a libre bios but has had intel me/amd psp neutered/removed.
Jackson Edwards
I'd take a slow computer with a 14nm implementation of a m68k if it gave me microsd storage and a battery that lasted a week. Make the thing one big battery and a tiny little microscopic CPU with the highest quality aluminum chassis and mechanical key switches.
I would use it as a text editor and RSS feed and do remote compilation.