I always buy refurbished business laptops. Big companies use them for three years then sell them. I pick them up at Microcenter and similar for $200-$250 and run them for 3-6 more years. I wipe the drive and install Linux as soo as I buy one. The 6 year old laptop I have at home with only 4G of ram running Linux is soo much faster than the 1 year old laptop at work with 16G of ram stuck running Windows.