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Yeah the best match I found for this was the lenovo t420, costs under $200 on the refurb market but has a core i5, if you get a refurb they tend to have decent battery life. Kind of heavy but since the hardware has been out for ~10 years the drivers are really stable and its an easy install for most distros.

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I have a t410 and can ditto this experience. You probably could get it for $70 from someone who doesn't know what they have.

I was running Lubuntu on a decently reliable PNY USB stick, but I would probably advise against this because my filesystem corrupted itself and I've since been wayyyy too lazy to reinstall and reformat everything.

I'm not a programmer by trade so I just use my LG Zone4 to do everything digital in my life currently.

Sorry if I'm misunderstanding: Lenovo T420 is a laptop, a Thinkpad that's about 2.5 kilos, and doesn't have a touch screen.

I like my T420 a lot, especially the build, keyboard, screen, general familiarity. I've used it for 7 years (i7, replaced the original HDD with an SDD a while ago, replaced the battery too).

But a T420 is far different than a tablet with a touchscreen that weighs a few hundred grams.

There's actually a thinkpad X230 tablet edition. I'm typing this on an X230 (non-tablet) and fairly happy with the device. But it won't be out of the box tablet-like on Linux.

Quick search for Ubuntu Touch seems to suggest Canonical stopped working on it and it's now maintained by the community.

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