What is the best laptop you can get for under 650€? (lemmy.asudox.dev)

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I am looking for a new laptop for my sister. Her budget is 650€. What laptop is the best overall? Macbooks are excluded, as she doesn't like them. The OS is not important, I can install the OS myself. It shouldn't be a gaming laptop and it also should have a long battery life. No ARM or RISC-V laptops please. Build quality should be decent.

Thanks in advance.

edit: specific requirements

Display size: 13 to 15 inches
Display resolution: +1920x1080px
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Thickness: Slim
Screen color accuracy is not important
Screen should be anti glare
RAM: +8GB SODIMM DDR5
Storage: +512GB SSD
Touchscreen: preferred
Foldable screen: preferred
Upgradeability: RAM and the SSD should be upgradeable
Keyboard: QWERTZ, DE-AT
GPU performance does not matter, would be only useful for video hardware acceleration
CPU performance does matter

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[-] aura@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago

OP might easily find a used thinkpad t14/t14s for less than €650, up to gen 4.

when choosing the thinkpad generation, it's often a trade-off between CPU performance (newer gen) and RAM upgradability (older gen). some gen 3+ models use soldered memory, but you get better CPU performance ;) check carefully

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