The OP question was what to do with A
NEW ThinkPad ...
AMD A6 7000
That is marginal hardware IMHO. Low priced for occasional or travel use maybe.
Depends on what you want to use it for ...
As for the rest of the off-topic comments and remarks:
With old hardware and outdated Windows versions (that have no security updates) LINUX is a no cost option. I installed Mint (12?) on a friend's old hp pavilion with xp on it a few years ago -- with 1G RAM and a single core Pentium it ran OK for limited consumer use.
I build my own hardware with superior components to most mid range consumer off-the-shelf computer systems and 'OEM' install LINUX.
If you think LINUX is a third world OS you are just arrogant. Android, Google's flavor of LINUX, is becoming the most used OS in the FIRST world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_...rating_systems
The Apple fan boi pays top money for a UNIX system developed by the BSD project at UC Berkeley that was funded by AT&T's ... Sciences Research Group (CSRG) of the University of California in Berkeley, CA and then granted into the public domain. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates just took parts of the code and and made it proprietary -- creating commercial empires -- bringing modern computing to persons with limited interest, or limited abilities, in computer device management. They found a good market and succeeded within it -- computer device management and eye-candy -- a more polished consumer product with a shiny hood and leather seats. Steve Jobs saw you coming and you bit hook, line and sinker ...
LINUX is for the l33t, we deal with the os code source, and how ever much we argue about our favored distros -- we are hard-to-the-core. Less than 3% of the word's Desktop computer operating systems, Android not included -- Android is Google Dumbed Down LINUX, server installations are excluded from this number, are real workstation or consumer use LINUX.
The Apple argument is a red herring in this thread;
however ... LINUX is used by NASA and is becoming the favored os used by universities and government operating units.
This begs the question, if iOS/OS X is so dammed good; why is iOS/OS X not widely used by universities and government operating units?
Google, NASA, CERN, US DoD and many other ''rocket scientists'' use the LINUX desktop.
@adultking ''If you want to live in the third world land of Linux on the desktop then go for it.'' -- condescending Apple fan boi. Go polish your MacBook -- your over priced status symbol
Large scale users are not so interested these days in Windows either -- Windows seems to have its back against the wall and offering some native LINUX capabilities -- opening its closed doors to the cancer is proclaimed LINUX was.
