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I find most regular laptops to be fragile. My son's Latitude 6430, which he got in 2012, is still working great after 7 years of school abuse. While not a rugged model, it is solid with a metal case and a spill-proof keyboard. Dell also has truly rugged laptops for under $800.
 
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Get a refurbished business laptop from a place like www.arrowdirect.com; Authorized Windows copy but no try and buy garbage.

Consumer laptops suck big time, they suck because they have try and buy and aren't designed to be repaired; Business laptops have quick swap components because a field guy can't spend 4 hours with 100 tiny screws to get to a DIMM in an inaccessible spot. No one is going to convince me a $349 consumer model is the same quality as a $1500 lenovo;



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A used Lenovo Thinkpad is around $250 - 300 and will last the 4yrs. I recommend to my family and everyone has been happy with them(8). That price includes a SSD HD drive.

Chromebook are a good choice however durability is pretty low because of low price points $200-$300 means cost cutting hardware.
 
Find yourself a Lenovo ThinkPad T-series or even the X1 series. I've gotten my few from work as retired machines but they still work. I use a late-2013 Mac as my personal laptop for coding/AWS and anything that needs the terminal. My Windows rig is a T450s. I've installed Ubuntu on a old T420 and I might install ChromeOS on a T430s.

If you can, find the newer T470/480/X1 Carbon 5th gen series. They both support USB-C charging/alt-mode and some models have Thunderbolt 3 so they can use whatever Mac chargers you have and USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 docking/monitors. And they also support NVMe SSDs(the T460 series does too).
 
Acer E5-576-392-H 329.00 on Amazon.Bought one for my wife at Christmas. Works fine.
 
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$200 on eBay gets a very nice modestly used and fully configured Dell Latitude E7470. Spend another $20 to get a docking station for it, and buy an full-sized 1080p or even 1440p LCD or two, and you have a very nice setup that you can un-dock from with the press of a button. Amazing how cheap hardware is these days. I almost cry looking back at how much I spent in college on computer hardware just to maintain some semblance of being modern enough to run the required software packages.
 
Originally Posted by pitzel
$200 on eBay gets a very nice modestly used and fully configured Dell Latitude E7470. Spend another $20 to get a docking station for it, and buy an full-sized 1080p or even 1440p LCD or two, and you have a very nice setup that you can un-dock from with the press of a button. Amazing how cheap hardware is these days. I almost cry looking back at how much I spent in college on computer hardware just to maintain some semblance of being modern enough to run the required software packages.

Yep. For around $400 you can have a nice setup.
 
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