On 7/18/22, James H. H. Lampert <jam...@touchtonecorp.com> wrote: >>> Another place to look is your local laptop store. My current laptop, >>> as well as its predecessor, are refurbished ThinkPads I bought there >>> for about $300. They run Linux just fine. > > "Local laptop store?" > > Not quite sure I've heard of such a thing, at least not recently. My > Chromebook came from BestBuy.
Maybe it's a small town thing. I actually worked in one and bought from another in my relatively small county. Both were family owned. I didn't receive money for working but instead paid off a portion of a P/C I bought from them ~15 years ago. There weren't any tech-centric big box stores in any counties nearby at the time. These days the Internet's ever increasing access has probably closed more than a few of those quaint little businesses that are/were competitively priced in spite of their size. Local Yellow Pages, if you can even find those for free these days, were where I first learned of the businesses I used. Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *