It's gonna be secondhand/refurbished at this pricetag, right?

Right

T440s is what I'm looking at for him

Well if it's just for ~~internet~~ facebook, yeah that's more than enough

Yeah

Also Skype I suppose

Whatever boomers use

also for 300 you might get X240 think pads used too

Not sure if that's advisable

(ones with 3G/gps and all that jazz)

T440s got a bigger screen

yeah depends totaly if its to be stationary or portable

In any case "bigger is better"

Boomer after all

you wish

:D

Heavier also, so it's better

i mean at that case old used toughbooks go for 300 at times

"more robust" kind of shit

core 2 duo toughbooks to some "i dont know anything about computers"

that face would be priceless on first boot when XP or Win7 icon starts spinning

"only 2.1kg (with or without battery ? we dont know nobody does ?"

and theyd get superior serial COM port

and mil standard parts and casing

🤔 (if only milspec meant good....)

It means for boomers

true~

Also got a 5/5 rating on Cnet

ohh yes must have

(in 2001 :D )

Jokes aside, T440s if the boomer wants a "big thingy", X2xx if he wants to be mobile

I guess we can pretty much all agree on that

yeah other good stuff on used price range might be HP Probooks and what not

I'm ~~kinda gay~~ biaised for Thinkpad personally

How good/bad are the HP Proobooks compared to thinkpad counterparts?

(they are usually more expensive in my region so a bit out of the question for me personally but you never know)

their life-/pro-/ultra-/elite-books are pretty much in same line with dell latitudes and lenovo <whateverbusinessmodels>

made for business it just depends what you need specwise

portability,ports,batterylife, etc

I was more interested in the quality of build / expected lifetime for a similarly spected lenovo vs HP pro/elite book

where as T440s are decent at all master of none of those, *books usualy tend to be more focused toward single need