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I bought Thinkpad T440p for about 200 eur used. It was actually pawned by someone so I bought it locally no shipping was needed. It is an excellent device and hardware wise very powerful - i5-4300M, 8GB of RAM, 250GB SSD. Got lucky and it had battery with still 85% capacity left so that makes it run for about 2 hours, which is great. Only drawback it has is low resolution screen.

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>hardware wise very powerful - i5-4300M, 8GB of RAM

Maybe 8GB of RAM can be dealt with, if you're always careful to close apps and tabs but managing RAM or hitting the SWAP or OOMkiller is something I don't want to worry about if I'm doing work. Especially if you get in to spinning up VMs. 16GB minimum would be recommended from my end.

And the i5 4300M is a pretty slow chip. I had a i5 6600M and it's noticeable slower at web browsing than options from the last couple of years. I'd say 8th gen would be the lowest bar.

what OS do you run on it ?

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