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I just bought a refurbished T430 for my sister. These things are built like tanks. Because of the enterprise usage patterns there are many good refurbished laptops available for sale.

I am rocking X230 after two years with MBP and it is excellent, but I have soft spot for Thinkpads as my first laptop was good old IBM T23. Great laptops, very well build, supports Linux out of the box and fantastic upgradability. Battery life is also very good, plus since X240 it is possible to change external battery without turning off the laptop which is handy.

I bought lately a refurbished T430 with 512 GB SSD and 16 GB RAM on Amazon after reading about it on HN. It works fine.

As someone with a P50, I've been really really impressed with it, even though 64GB has been pretty overkill. I just wish I could have gotten it with a 4k screen instead of just HD.