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29 days agoOP might easily find a used thinkpad t14/t14s for less than €650, up to gen 4.
when choosing the thinkpad generation, it’s often a trade-off between CPU performance (newer gen) and RAM upgradability (older gen). some gen 3+ models use soldered memory, but you get better CPU performance ;) check carefully
i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect