Anyone here have experience with buying refurbished ThinkPads from Amazon sellers? I may be in need of another Windows laptop soon and I'm trying to keep the replacement below $500. Been looking at the perennial recommendation, T480.

If anyone has another recommendation for me, I'm open. The reasons I gravitate towards ThinkPads are the quality keyboard and overall good construction. I repaired more of them than I could count back in my PC tech days, but that was back in the '90s when they were made by IBM.

Requirements:

High quality keyboard
1080p resolution min
RAM expandable to 32 GB+
m.2 NVMe slot
Second storage slot (could be PCI-E or m.2)
NOT a Chromebook

Everything else is just a nice to have.

@voltronic wonder if the Lenovo site has a refurbished section

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They do, on the Lenovo Outlet. I looked there already and everything in my price range or even bit above has soldered RAM, and / or low-res displays.

So far nothing seems to be approaching the value of the refurb t480s.

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