Our classmate died - laptop suggestions?

[Sperkowsky]

Originally Posted by MrRoboSteve

Taylor and I were thinking the same thing.

Our team bought four used Dell Latitude D830s as our programming machines a couple years ago. They've been great. We are thinking about putting SSDs in them next year.

If I was buying a machine to use as a DS today, I'd be looking at a 3-4 year old used Thinkpad -- for example, a well configured T430. They are very durable and there are tons of parts available.

I picked up a t430 for myself personally on ebay.

It had a third gen i5 240gb ssd 8 gigs of ram and a decent screen.

And it was only $400 bucks.
Look around it but thinkpads are the way to go as they are built like a tank.