IdeaPads?

Plastic shit is plastic shit user, wish I saved money for a laptop that is not fucking cheap plastic.

i have an ideapad 310 and its pretty noice. the only real problem is the garbage screen and hinge.

They're not even close to the shit tier thinkpads like the L series, let alone actual thinkpads.

I'm looking at the t430, should I buy it "referbished" off Newegg or just find a shitty eBay seller?

What else would they be made of, iron?

Magnesium and aluminum, dumbass

Get the 420. The keyboard is goat. I recommend you buy them off Newegg. Better QC. often cheaper if they don't come with a bullshit windows install

Try to look for a used X1 carbon on ebay - you can find them cheap ($200-300 usd) and they have pretty nice specs.

Had a U410 and regretted it within 6 months. The construction quality is awful, batteries are shit, the Optimus fucks up half the time to the point I wound up disabling the dGPU. When the screen cracked from opening the broken hinge wrong once I just removed it and turned it into an HTPC for my folks, I suppose it can at least run Netflix for them.

>below $500
100 more you could get a brand new x270 or t470, even with 8gb ram and extra large battery. check /tpg/ faggot.