[kawsper]

I've bought a x230 on eBay for my partner, I installed Fedora on it and that has been fine, printers are working and most of the workflow is in a browser nowadays.

I've had to upgrade the keyboard once (2-3 keys fell off), but spare parts are available on eBay, and parts are very easily replaceable with an electronics screwdriver and a YouTube video, or by acquiring the Thinkpad service manual for more advanced procedures such as upgrading or replacing your screen (Which I've done to my Thinkpad X200 running Libreboot).

We are also considering a battery upgrade, which is still available on eBay even for older models.

[ornornor]

My 9 cell battery is dead (30 mins runtime) but I can’t figure out what battery to buy. Original Lenovo are either too old to be good because they were made 5 years ago and sat on the shelf for years and the cells have degraded even if it’s technically new, or they’re just fake. I have zero trust in the safety, performance, and durability of the third party batteries sold on eBay or amazon.

What’s your plan?

[spapas82]

I'm running windows 10 on my x230 (8GB ram / 240GB SSD) and I am more than happy with it :)

[lozaning]

Throw the classic keyboard from the X220 on there and you're really in the butter zone.

[berbec]

Just stay away from the x240. No buttons on the TouchPad. I replaced mine and it worked great with a x250 TouchPad, but took two hours to do the swap.

[kawsper]

It's a great little machine.