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Office and school
You work or study on the machine all day: email, documents, classes, video calls, twenty tabs.
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Laptop
6 opcionesDell
Latitude 5320
Dellse amplía
The Dell at the same budget as a used ThinkPad T, with better internals.
- Processor
- Intel Core i5-1145G7, 4 núcleos
- Memory
- 16 GB
- Drive
- 256 GB SSD
+ Construye tu estación · Office and school laptop · 17 piezas− Close la estación · Office and school laptop
The most common one, and the one where choosing the monitor well saves you most: one with a USB-C input gives you screen, charging and ports over a single cable, and then you do not need to buy the dock.
The monitor
BenQ RD270Q, 27 inches at 1440p with 65 W USB-C
no price in this store
BenQ GW2490TC, 23.8 inches with USB-C
$130 USD
The dock
UGREEN Revodok, 5-in-1 USB-C hub
no price in this store
Anker, 7-in-1 USB-C hub
$26 USD
Lenovo ThinkPad USB-C Dock Gen 2
$102 USD
The cable
Cable Matters USB-C to DisplayPort 2.1, DP40 certified
$30 USD
- no photo
UGREEN USB-C to DisplayPort 1.4
$23 USD
The keyboard
Logitech MK950 Signature Slim, keyboard and mouse together
no price in this store
Logitech MX Keys Mini
$90 USD
The mouse
Logitech MX Master 3S
$85 USD
The stand and the arm
Rain Design mStand
$40 USD
Twelve South Curve SE
$17 USD
Headphones and headsets
Jabra Evolve2 40, headset with USB adapter — for TALKING
$68 USD
The chair
HON Ignition 2.0, seven-year warranty
no price in this store
Steelcase Series 1, twelve-year warranty
no price in this store
Herman Miller Aeron Classic size B, twelve years
no price in this store
The desk
VIVO, dual-motor electric frame (72.4–120 cm)
no price in this store
+ Why this one, and how far it grows− Close
It is here because the budget Dell was missing, and the answer was not the one I expected: Dell's ENTRY range — the Latitude 3000, which is what competes with the ThinkPad L — does not reach the shop. What does, and is a better idea, is refurbished MID range at the same price: this one costs about the same as the T480 and brings two generations more and twice the memory. And at 13.3 inches it weighs less in the bag.
Memory
SODIMM slots, with 16 GB already fitted.
Quién lo dice · Dell service manuals for the Latitude 5000 family.
How far it grows
Free slots, published service manual and common spare parts. It is the same promise as the other Latitudes on the site, only starting at half the price.
Latitude 5420
Dellse amplía
Two slots and two drives. Published service manual.
- Processor
- Intel Core i5-1135G7
- Memory
- 16 GB
- Drive
- 256 GB SSD
- Screen
- 14 pulgadas
+ Construye tu estación · Office and school laptop · 17 piezas− Close la estación · Office and school laptop
The most common one, and the one where choosing the monitor well saves you most: one with a USB-C input gives you screen, charging and ports over a single cable, and then you do not need to buy the dock.
The monitor
BenQ RD270Q, 27 inches at 1440p with 65 W USB-C
no price in this store
BenQ GW2490TC, 23.8 inches with USB-C
$130 USD
The dock
UGREEN Revodok, 5-in-1 USB-C hub
no price in this store
Anker, 7-in-1 USB-C hub
$26 USD
Lenovo ThinkPad USB-C Dock Gen 2
$102 USD
The cable
Cable Matters USB-C to DisplayPort 2.1, DP40 certified
$30 USD
- no photo
UGREEN USB-C to DisplayPort 1.4
$23 USD
The keyboard
Logitech MK950 Signature Slim, keyboard and mouse together
no price in this store
Logitech MX Keys Mini
$90 USD
The mouse
Logitech MX Master 3S
$85 USD
The stand and the arm
Rain Design mStand
$40 USD
Twelve South Curve SE
$17 USD
Headphones and headsets
Jabra Evolve2 40, headset with USB adapter — for TALKING
$68 USD
The chair
HON Ignition 2.0, seven-year warranty
no price in this store
Steelcase Series 1, twelve-year warranty
no price in this store
Herman Miller Aeron Classic size B, twelve years
no price in this store
The desk
VIVO, dual-motor electric frame (72.4–120 cm)
no price in this store
+ Why this one, and how far it grows− Close
Of the refurbished machines available, the one that lets itself be repaired best: two memory slots, two drive slots and a service manual with the step-by-step for each part. It is in office and not in a category of its own because «refurbished» is not a use: it is a way of buying, and it is marked on each machine's entry.
Memory
2 SODIMM slots, nothing soldered. 64 GB ceiling.
Quién lo dice · Dell's Latitude 5420 service manual, with the step-by-step for each part.
How far it grows
Two slots and two drives means you can separate system and data without opening the machine twice. A 64 GB ceiling, twice a T480's.
Latitude 5430
Dellse amplía
Two free slots and nothing soldered. The most expandable at its price.
- Processor
- Intel Core i5-1245U, 10 núcleos
- Memory
- 16 GB
- Drive
- 512 GB SSD
- Screen
- 14 pulgadas FHD
+ Construye tu estación · Office and school laptop · 17 piezas− Close la estación · Office and school laptop
The most common one, and the one where choosing the monitor well saves you most: one with a USB-C input gives you screen, charging and ports over a single cable, and then you do not need to buy the dock.
The monitor
BenQ RD270Q, 27 inches at 1440p with 65 W USB-C
no price in this store
BenQ GW2490TC, 23.8 inches with USB-C
$130 USD
The dock
UGREEN Revodok, 5-in-1 USB-C hub
no price in this store
Anker, 7-in-1 USB-C hub
$26 USD
Lenovo ThinkPad USB-C Dock Gen 2
$102 USD
The cable
Cable Matters USB-C to DisplayPort 2.1, DP40 certified
$30 USD
- no photo
UGREEN USB-C to DisplayPort 1.4
$23 USD
The keyboard
Logitech MK950 Signature Slim, keyboard and mouse together
no price in this store
Logitech MX Keys Mini
$90 USD
The mouse
Logitech MX Master 3S
$85 USD
The stand and the arm
Rain Design mStand
$40 USD
Twelve South Curve SE
$17 USD
Headphones and headsets
Jabra Evolve2 40, headset with USB adapter — for TALKING
$68 USD
The chair
HON Ignition 2.0, seven-year warranty
no price in this store
Steelcase Series 1, twelve-year warranty
no price in this store
Herman Miller Aeron Classic size B, twelve years
no price in this store
The desk
VIVO, dual-motor electric frame (72.4–120 cm)
no price in this store
+ Why this one, and how far it grows− Close
Dell is the manufacturer that certifies the most models with Ubuntu — 649, half its catalogue — and has sold Linux preinstalled since 2012. This one does not have a single soldered memory chip.
Memory
2 SODIMM slots, nothing soldered. 64 GB ceiling.
Quién lo dice · Dell service manual, Latitude 5430, memory module section.
How far it grows
It is one of the few where the memory can be thrown out entirely and started again. A 64 GB ceiling on an office laptop is a ceiling you will not reach.
Lenovo
ThinkPad L14 Gen 5
Lenovonueva
The most affordable new business-grade ThinkPad there is.
- Processor
- AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 7535U
- Memory
- 16 GB DDR5
- Drive
- 1 TB SSD
- Screen
- 14 pulgadas WUXGA 1920×1200
- Graphics
- AMD Radeon 660M
+ Construye tu estación · Office and school laptop · 17 piezas− Close la estación · Office and school laptop
The most common one, and the one where choosing the monitor well saves you most: one with a USB-C input gives you screen, charging and ports over a single cable, and then you do not need to buy the dock.
The monitor
BenQ RD270Q, 27 inches at 1440p with 65 W USB-C
no price in this store
BenQ GW2490TC, 23.8 inches with USB-C
$130 USD
The dock
UGREEN Revodok, 5-in-1 USB-C hub
no price in this store
Anker, 7-in-1 USB-C hub
$26 USD
Lenovo ThinkPad USB-C Dock Gen 2
$102 USD
The cable
Cable Matters USB-C to DisplayPort 2.1, DP40 certified
$30 USD
- no photo
UGREEN USB-C to DisplayPort 1.4
$23 USD
The keyboard
Logitech MK950 Signature Slim, keyboard and mouse together
no price in this store
Logitech MX Keys Mini
$90 USD
The mouse
Logitech MX Master 3S
$85 USD
The stand and the arm
Rain Design mStand
$40 USD
Twelve South Curve SE
$17 USD
Headphones and headsets
Jabra Evolve2 40, headset with USB adapter — for TALKING
$68 USD
The chair
HON Ignition 2.0, seven-year warranty
no price in this store
Steelcase Series 1, twelve-year warranty
no price in this store
Herman Miller Aeron Classic size B, twelve years
no price in this store
The desk
VIVO, dual-motor electric frame (72.4–120 cm)
no price in this store
+ Why this one, and how far it grows− Close
It goes here for anybody who wants a new machine with a full warranty, and it is an L and not an E on purpose. The E carries the ThinkPad surname and not the construction: it is the entry line for small business, with a plastic chassis and panels around 250 cd/m². The L is the corporate fleet one — what companies buy by the hundred — and that one is business grade.
Memory
Free SODIMM slot depending on configuration; part may be soldered.
Quién lo dice · Lenovo PSREF, L14 Gen 5 spec sheet. As with every recent ThinkPad, you have to look at the processor and not just the model.
How far it grows
Published service manual, common spare parts and the same community that documents the rest of the line. What you buy is the start of the service life.
ThinkPad X1 Carbon
Lenovono se amplía
Just over a kilo. For somebody who carries it every day.
- Processor
- Intel Core i5-1145G7
- Memory
- 16 GB
- Drive
- 256 GB SSD
- Screen
- 14 pulgadas
+ Construye tu estación · Office and school laptop · 17 piezas− Close la estación · Office and school laptop
The most common one, and the one where choosing the monitor well saves you most: one with a USB-C input gives you screen, charging and ports over a single cable, and then you do not need to buy the dock.
The monitor
BenQ RD270Q, 27 inches at 1440p with 65 W USB-C
no price in this store
BenQ GW2490TC, 23.8 inches with USB-C
$130 USD
The dock
UGREEN Revodok, 5-in-1 USB-C hub
no price in this store
Anker, 7-in-1 USB-C hub
$26 USD
Lenovo ThinkPad USB-C Dock Gen 2
$102 USD
The cable
Cable Matters USB-C to DisplayPort 2.1, DP40 certified
$30 USD
- no photo
UGREEN USB-C to DisplayPort 1.4
$23 USD
The keyboard
Logitech MK950 Signature Slim, keyboard and mouse together
no price in this store
Logitech MX Keys Mini
$90 USD
The mouse
Logitech MX Master 3S
$85 USD
The stand and the arm
Rain Design mStand
$40 USD
Twelve South Curve SE
$17 USD
Headphones and headsets
Jabra Evolve2 40, headset with USB adapter — for TALKING
$68 USD
The chair
HON Ignition 2.0, seven-year warranty
no price in this store
Steelcase Series 1, twelve-year warranty
no price in this store
Herman Miller Aeron Classic size B, twelve years
no price in this store
The desk
VIVO, dual-motor electric frame (72.4–120 cm)
no price in this store
+ Why this one, and how far it grows− Close
It is the brand's flagship and the ThinkPad that has been a Linux favourite longest: carbon fibre chassis, around 1.1 kg, and the recent generation is Ubuntu certified. If your problem is carrying the machine every day, no T comes close on weight.
Memory
Soldered to the board. There is no slot, not one. The ceiling is what you buy.
Quién lo dice · LaptopMedia teardowns of the Gen 10 and spec sheets for Gen 11 and 12: LPDDR5 soldered, and so it has been since Gen 9.
How far it grows
The drive and the battery do change; the memory does NOT, not now and not ever. And out of that comes the one thing to decide before buying it: on a normal machine memory is a problem you fix later, and on this one it is the ceiling on what it will be good for for the rest of its life. With 16 GB — what the linked one comes with — you are more than covered for office and school: email, documents, video calls and twenty tabs fit easily. What it will never do is heavy work, and not because it is slow: because the day your work does not fit in 16 GB, there is no slot to add more.
ThinkPad T14 Gen 3
Lenovo
The office default. It opens, it expands and there are spare parts.
- Processor
- Intel Core i5-1245U, 10 núcleos
- Memory
- 16 GB DDR4
- Drive
- 512 GB SSD
- Screen
- 14 pulgadas FHD táctil
+ Construye tu estación · Office and school laptop · 17 piezas− Close la estación · Office and school laptop
The most common one, and the one where choosing the monitor well saves you most: one with a USB-C input gives you screen, charging and ports over a single cable, and then you do not need to buy the dock.
The monitor
BenQ RD270Q, 27 inches at 1440p with 65 W USB-C
no price in this store
BenQ GW2490TC, 23.8 inches with USB-C
$130 USD
The dock
UGREEN Revodok, 5-in-1 USB-C hub
no price in this store
Anker, 7-in-1 USB-C hub
$26 USD
Lenovo ThinkPad USB-C Dock Gen 2
$102 USD
The cable
Cable Matters USB-C to DisplayPort 2.1, DP40 certified
$30 USD
- no photo
UGREEN USB-C to DisplayPort 1.4
$23 USD
The keyboard
Logitech MK950 Signature Slim, keyboard and mouse together
no price in this store
Logitech MX Keys Mini
$90 USD
The mouse
Logitech MX Master 3S
$85 USD
The stand and the arm
Rain Design mStand
$40 USD
Twelve South Curve SE
$17 USD
Headphones and headsets
Jabra Evolve2 40, headset with USB adapter — for TALKING
$68 USD
The chair
HON Ignition 2.0, seven-year warranty
no price in this store
Steelcase Series 1, twelve-year warranty
no price in this store
Herman Miller Aeron Classic size B, twelve years
no price in this store
The desk
VIVO, dual-motor electric frame (72.4–120 cm)
no price in this store
+ Why this one, and how far it grows− Close
Of the 350 models Lenovo certifies with Ubuntu, 338 are ThinkPads. Lenovo publishes the service manual with the part-by-part teardown, so battery, drive and hinge get changed without a specialist workshop.
Memory
16 GB soldered + 1 free SODIMM slot. Real ceiling 48 GB.
Quién lo dice · Lenovo PSREF, T14 Gen 3 Intel spec sheet.
How far it grows
Put a 32 GB module in and it reaches 48, more than it will ever need in an office. Battery and drive are common parts. What canNOT be expanded are the 16 GB soldered.
Desktop
1 opciónDell
OptiPlex 3060 Micro
Dellse amplía
If you do not have to carry it, it is twice the machine for the same money.
- Processor
- Intel Core i3-8100T
- Memory
- 16 GB DDR4
- Drive
- 256 GB NVMe SSD
+ Construye tu estación · OptiPlex 3060 Micro · 10 piezas− Close la estación · OptiPlex 3060 Micro
The other single-machine one, for the same reason as the T480: its video output is from the generation when 4K 30 was normal.
The monitor
BenQ GW2490TC, 23.8 inches with USB-C
$130 USD
BenQ RD270Q, 27 inches at 1440p with 65 W USB-C
no price in this store
The cable
Club 3D DisplayPort 2.1, DP80 certified
$25 USD
The keyboard
Logitech MK950 Signature Slim, keyboard and mouse together
no price in this store
The mouse
Logitech MX Master 3S
$85 USD
The speakers
Creative Pebble
$21 USD
The chair
HON Ignition 2.0, seven-year warranty
no price in this store
Steelcase Series 1, twelve-year warranty
no price in this store
Herman Miller Aeron Classic size B, twelve years
no price in this store
The desk
VIVO, dual-motor electric frame (72.4–120 cm)
no price in this store
+ Why this one, and how far it grows− Close
A six-year-old office computer costs less than a new entry-level laptop and is a better computer in every way. It already comes with 16 GB, which is what you actually feel with twenty tabs open.
Memory
2 SODIMM slots, 16 GB already fitted.
Quién lo dice · Dell service manuals by model.
How far it grows
No battery, no hinge and no screen degrading on their own. When you move on to something else, it stays as a server and the money is not lost.
What changes on a desktop
The same for half the money, and with twice the life. A ThinkCentre Tiny costs less than the equivalent laptop because it is not paying for a screen, a battery or a thin chassis — and those three are exactly what laptops die of.
+ What you ask of the machine in this use− Close
- That the keyboard survives eight hours, which is what actually gets used.
- That the battery can be changed without changing the machine.
- Intel wifi, because a video call that drops is unforgivable.
- 16 GB today, and room to add more in three years.
- That it survives the bag if you are going to carry it: hinge and chassis before processor.