Lenovo ThinkPad T500

My Lenovo Thinkpad from nearly a decade ago hasn't been working too well for me lately, sometimes struggling with video calls and buffering videos. Also, it's graphics card isn't good enough to run a few games I'd like to play (Civ 6, Ori & the Blind Forest, Journey). Not sure if that's specifically something I'll have to look for or if all modern computers will be up to the task. I'm in the US, looking for something <1K.

For that price they're worth it however you can also find 30 series ThinkPads for the same price and that point you might as well skip the 20 series models and go straight for a 30 series model. 30 series ThinkPads (X230, T430, T530, W530) are sold at about the same price of the 20 series models but are one generation newer (3000 series CPU instead of 2000 series) and introduce USB 3.0 (20 series models only have it on the expensive i7 motherboards...).

* Lenovo ThinkPad T500. * Lenovo ThinkPad W500. * Lenovo ThinkPad R500. Battery that lasts at least few hours and is easily swapable for another one.

I got it today and it is very bad. In comparison to T450s: awful keyboard, disgusting plastic case (not pleasant Magnium), sharp edges after the keyboardAnd the most bad thing is a cooler. In the battery menu you have only 3 power-save options with 3 FIXED fan speed values. If you want to get maximum perfomance, you will get maximum-speed fan, and also temperatures are strange.