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Date: 2014-07-13 11:12 pm (UTC)The X200/X201 are solid, compact (12" screen) and quite fast. The X61, which I bought second hand years ago, is even cheaper. X200 stuff goes for about 150-200 quid. X61 or X60 are cheaper than that, I wouldn't bother with anything earlier - it's too slow now.
The only weakness is that the graphics chipset is rather poor if you want to run accelerated games, but that's not what the machine is aimed at. Also, the battery life of a second hand laptop will never be brilliant, but shouldn't be dire.
Should support Windows 7 fine, there's not much about Windows 8 on Lenovo's site. http://forum.thinkpads.com/ may be informative.
Widely available on Morgan Computers, ebay and other discount/refurbished stores.