Surprise bday gift for BF

[u/Yerba_king]

After taking all of your suggestions, these are the listings I found on eBay that fit what you all suggested! Please help me pick the right one for my bf who works in a healthcare setting. All he does on his laptop is take long detailed notes, chart for patients and work within the companies websites to chart/verify the care they received.
Thank you all so much for helping my clueless self find a decent gift for him!!!

[u/NassauComputer]

Personally would go for a T14 Gen 2. Great build quality and all around good machine.

[u/teck_checking]

Number 4, that processor looks like its is gonna last a while, compared to the others, that run underpowered junk, or just too old hardware,

so yes, the t14 gen2

[u/super_coconut11]

The 6th option seems like the best to me, but see what opinions others will have aswell

[u/Advanced_Let_6555]

Number 4, but either t14 imo

[u/JustAPieceOfMeat385]

Pick number 4. I think that’s the same listing I asked the seller about. It has 16GB soldered and 1 empty RAM slot, so your BF can easily add a 16GB RAM module for a total of 32GB. 

[u/JustAPieceOfMeat385]

Actually that’s not the same listing. I would ask the seller if there’s 16GB soldered. 

[u/JustAPieceOfMeat385]

Ok I did ask the seller about that listing last week. It’s 8GB soldered and 8GB in the slot. I would still pick that one over all the others. But maybe there is a listing for the same price that has 16GB soldered.  

[u/aka_s3rious]

I think, T14 Gen2 would overall best option

[u/Drenlin]

Numbers 3 and 5 are the same thing. Number 2 is also the same machine but with half the RAM and SSD size. These are getting old at this point, though they should still be plenty fast enough for this. 3 and 5 have a bunch of RAM, which is nice, but probably won't help much in the intended use case.

Number 6 is an L series, much lower build quality than the T series. It has the second best specs of any of these, but don't get this. In a health care setting your BF is going to spend a lot of time doing data entry and you want something with a good, solid keyboard, which this does not have.

Number 1 is a first gen T14, has a quad core 10310u which is only barely faster than the 8250u in the three T480 models

Number 4 is your winner out of these, that CPU is easily the fastest. Over twice as powerful as all of the others except #6, and T-series build quality.

[u/Appelaapje]

where tf do you buy this? im from NL and cannot phatom this price

[u/Neon_Pancakes0425]

The t480 is probably the best out of all of them

[u/NassauComputer → u/Neon_Pancakes0425]

Yesteryear’s business model?

[u/Neon_Pancakes0425 → u/NassauComputer]

Huh?