If anything, this is a glowing review of the entire ThinkPad line. Most PC hardware turns into shit after a couple of years of heavy use. Not so with ThinkPads. I'm all for reuse-reduce-recycle, but very few electronic thingamajigs are capable of holding water after a certain period of time.

On the other hand, "cheapo refurb" is also indicative of my desire to minimize the expense of purchasing an additional computer.

Absolutely. I've got a T420 as my home machine running Jessie. I've replaced the keyboard, but other than that, it's just kept ticking.

I'm thinking of getting another just to have the parts on-hand if I need to replace anything else.