Lenovo ThinkPad X250

A used work station like a lenovo thinkpad from the p range or a HP zbook no more than a few years old and get the best spec you can find.

I spent a week reading all the reviews about the best laptops before buying this. The reviews are lying. This computer is crap. It is incredibly slow, unreliable, switches off without warning, freezes all the time, the keyboard buttons (award-winning keyboard, seriously? very funny!) started to brea...

Sorry i'm just curious, what exactly do you do to open and close laptops so many times?

I would definitely look into business laptop. Used ones can be very affordable. dell latitude, lenovo thinkpad, hp elitebook...

Lenovo x250 business purchase motherboard dead. Lenivo has zero customer service and cares nothing about the business customer. Second lenovo product to die in 2 years. BUYER BEWARE.

I have here a thinkpad x250 with possible broken bios. A previous dump of the bios chip I could not make unfortunately because this was already empty. Failure:. Turn on the laptop -> fan spins for about 5 seconds -> power LED is green and then nothing happens.

The ThinkPad X250 ($1,317.60 as tested) is the latest ultraportable business laptop from Lenovo, and it's a solid entry into the category. Long-time Lenovo fans will recognize both the clear continuation of ThinkPad design and the smaller refinements that make the ThinkPad X250($250.00 at Amazon)(Op...

You could probably get a secondhand ThinkPad X250 (13 inch), or T450 (14 inch). If you get the X240 or T440, be prepared to change the trackpad, as the standard one that comes with those models is awful (it's the trackpad without the buttons). I have found the X250 and T450 to be very good, reliable, cheap (and with reasonable battery life too). If you get the earlier models (like the X220 or X230), you might get more power, but battery life won't be as good (and not sure if you can still buy batteries for those models, I know you can still get batteries for the X250 and T450).

Lenovo Thinkpad, you can't go wrong. I'm partial to the T series which I've been using for a long time. This is a general recommendation, if you start talking GPUs than you need to consider form factor for cooling etc...

The Lenovo ThinkPad lineup meets or exceeds Apple's build quality. better warranty options as well. I'd start looking there if a Mac is out of the question.

I've had good luck with both Dell Latitude and Lenovo ThinkPad in that price range. Depending on where you are, Latitude might be slightly better value for money, since used ThinkPads are more talked about and popular.