Lenovo - ThinkPad L450 14" Intel Core i5 2.3Ghz-5300U 8GB 256GB SSD Windows 10 Pro - Refurbished

Pretty good little laptop if you're looking for something on the cheaper side, then again I stuck linux on it so no clue about performance with windows. All the ports are very useful and keyboard is nice, responsive, and clicky but not too loud, just the way I like it.

Purchased a Refurbished one for my wife. Got a great deal on this one. Works great and the battery lasts long. It is in the heavier side and looks a bit bulky so not for people looking for a sleek design and less weight

decent speed, quick start up. it does everything i need it too, but the keyboard is LOUD and the keys are impossible to clean. i got enough dust that my keys stopped working and made the mistake of popping a B key to fix it. now i have no B key, Im used to keyboard keys popping on and off but every key has a 3 part system with easily lost and broken pieces. good going lenovo. i wouldn't recommend buying this cuz of the keyboard tbh.

For the past five years I've had a Google Chromebook. So glad to get rid of that laptop for good and up grade to a Levono laptop. My Thinkpad L450 cost only $300.00 and operates as well as my old Toshiba satellite which cost $600.00 brand new at the PX on Hunter Army Airfield from 2011 thru 2015. Actually nice to actually have a real pc laptop again. Not a tech guy so details about PCs escape me. Just nice to be able to download a file or an app with out a message stating the file or app is not supported. After I received the L450 I noticed the Z and Y keys were switched. No problems and wish I had bought a Thinkpad earlier.

Very pleasantly surprised with this laptop. I've been going through a few, refurbished laptops for the last decade, and I can feel the differences in build quality for sure. Although this is much thinner than some of the other brand, older laptops, it does feel sturdier, and my previous lenovo felt and was quite sturdy too. Lenovo laptops are the best in performance for me usually, but with some annoying bit here or there. For me, it's the mouse here. It's so weirdly sensitive, both in area touch and reception. Sometimes it doesn't react how it did just one click and second ago. I think they at least could have visually designated on it the areas better, but maybe they didn't because it isn't so accurate. Otherwise, the memory is wonderful. I have an older version of Photoshop, but I can easily run PS, browser games and multiple browsers at a time, and play FFXI all at once. FFXIV runs quite well too, and looks good. I like having access to newer software and their requirements, but the smoothness on performance that some older software needed for versions of Windows 7 or 10, but my older laptops couldn't manage. (Due to RAM, or otherwise.)

I picked this up for controlling my astrophotography setup as well as processing the photos. Works great for that purpose but could use a bit more RAM.

My only complaint is that it is a lot bulkier and heavier than I expected. I'm sure if I had looked into it more I would have know that, but for a backup home PC incase we have to do homeschool it works. It's fast enough to run Plex well, which is my only current need.

Decent work PC, no problems with browsing or running programs yet. Battery life is average. You can do a few things on all laptops to tune the battery life a little bit more but for the price point its to be expected right where its at. Can't really go wrong if you need a PC to do some work on and won't be unplugged/on battery all day long @ this price point