I have found that laptops with cracked or scrached screens offer a much better value in terms of newer hardware. The battery acts as a built in UPS.

For example this laptop:

Dell Latitude 7400 Intel i7-1165G7 16GB 256GB NVMe SSD

Is $180 shipped.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/266969891671?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid...