

Very much! Well here’s some general tips:
- Buy FACTORY refurbished whenever you can. They should be like new, and come with a full warranty
- Buy something with a 2-3 manufacturer warranty
- Buy AMD over Intel at this point. The cost and power savings will be much better for the price.
- Once you find a model you might be interested in, look it up on NotebookCheck or Phoronix. Both very reliable reviewers.
Most Reliable Brands
- MSI
- Framework (probably not available in your area cheap)
- Lenovo Thinkpad: ONLY the Thinkpad, every other model line is trash
- Dell XPS: ONLY this model
I’m not sure the sales will actually still be available in your area, but the “Black Friday” deals are coming up for North America in a few weeks. It may be worth waiting and seeing if something you like goes on sale.























The “disk” in this terminology is actually referring to the partition, which is the active disk when an OS boots. Different partitions are treated as different disks, it’s not about the physical disk.
Say you have 2 drives: one could contain only unencrypted portions of boot information, and the second drive could only contain encrypted partitions.
Then it would meet your definition of how it should work by terminology 😂