Which to keep?

[aisle9]

I'm working on moving, and that means downsizing from four laptops to two, maybe three. Here's what I've got and the pros and cons of keeping each:

 

Dell Inspiron 7567, 15.6", i5-7300HQ, GTX 1050 Ti, 256GB M.2

Pros of keeping: My most powerful laptop, and it's not even close. True desktop replacement for long trips. 1080p screen is beautiful.

Cons of keeping: 15.6" makes it bigger than practical, certainly bigger than I like a laptop to be. Heavy. Worth the most of all three.

 

ThinkPad T460, 14" i5-6200U, Intel HD 520, 512GB Samsung 850 Pro (would be replaced with a 256GB drive if sold)

Pros of keeping: Sweet spot for me on size vs. portability. Can do anything I want it to except game, but I really don't game that much. Can handle vanilla Skyrim at 768p. Battery life is great. Batteries are like new and last forever. Two RAM slots.

Cons of keeping: The middle ground in terms of price and my needs. It isn't significantly faster than my X250, but it is bigger. 768p screen sucks. It's kind of redundant with the X250 around.

 

ThinkPad X250, 12" i5-5200U, Intel HD 5500, 480GB SanDisk SSD Plus

Pros of keeping: My smallest laptop and perfect for shorter trips. Can get to 30fps on vanilla Skyrim at 768p and mostly hold itself there, which is fine for that game. Battery life, like the T460, is spectacular, and both batteries are new. Lightweight, portable, and surprisingly comfortable to use for extended periods of time.

Cons of keeping: Only one RAM slot, effectively capping it at 8GB given the cost of a 16GB DDR3L SODIMM relative to the value of the laptop. The least capable of my three main laptops--the graphics on the T460 are better (sometimes noticeably so), and everything is better on the Dell. 768p screen sucks, but it's a bit more manageable on the smaller 12" panel.

 

ThinkPad X61 Tablet, 12" Core 2 Duo L7700 (I think? 1.8GHz), GMA graphics, 64GB mSATA SSD

Pros of keeping: My first personal ThinkPad, and that's kept it around much longer than it should have. Versatile, and with MX Linux, you'd never know it's 12 years old. Decent battery life with the extended battery on Linux, upwards of four hours. Not really worth all that much, possibly not even enough to make it worth selling when compared to my undying love for it.

Cons of keeping: It's 12 years old, meaning there is zero support to be had. Batteries have to be replaced by cheap Chinese knockoffs at this point, which has already bitten me in the ass once. While it is usable on Linux, I wouldn't dare go so far as to call it "useful". Maxed out at 4GB of RAM. It can theoretically take 8GB, but again, the cost of two DDR2 4GB SODIMMs is much, much more than the laptop is worth. Useless in Windows 10, more because Microsoft has progressively bloated that OS than because it can't handle the core functions of the original W10.

 

My inclination for the moment is to keep the X61, the Dell, and one of the two modern ThinkPads. I'm leaning towards selling the T460 and keeping the X250. The 460 is close in size to the Dell, and not all that much better in terms of performance than the X250. If I were to keep the T460, there wouldn't be a whole lot of logic in keeping the Dell or the X250, at least from a size/travel point of view. This is harder than I thought it would be, and I am dreading the day I have to start selling off the desktops I actually use on a daily basis (Hypnotoad )

[Firewrath9]

I'd sell all and get a nice 13" or 14" all-rounder + eGPU (mabye XPS 13 or a razer blade 13")

[LukeLinusFanFic]

I think you should sell the middle two, keep the first one for productivity and keep the "tablet", but with the understanding it's basically for sentimental reasons. A memento.