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Alright, I will get that instead, though I would prefer something that's durable and lasts longer.
If you don't need a beefy CPU+dGPU, the X395, the T490 and the T495 would be great. However, if good CPU is a strict requirement, you may want to pick something like the T14 Gen 1/2 oe the X13 Gen 1/2 laptops. If you also need a dGPU, the P50, P51, P52 or the P53 series with a i7/i9/Xeon processor, and a Nvidia Quadra GPU. You can get them under 300-400$.
Excellent. Something cheap but powerful.
This might be what you're looking for, since you've mentioned gaming, right? These are the ones with dGPU:
Lenovo ThinkPad P51 Core i7-7700HQ, 32GB DDR4, Quadro M1200 (4GB GDDR5) 512GB
Lenovo ThinkPad P51 FHD 3.0GHz Xeon E3-1505M 24GB 512GB - NVIDIA Quadro M2200
Lenovo ThinkPad P51 15.6" Laptop i7 NVIDIA 512GB SSD 16GB RAM Win 10 Pro (OC)
Lenovo ThinkPad P52s 15.6" FHD TOUCH 1.9GHz i7-8650U 16GB 512GB - Quadro P500
Lenovo ThinkPad P52s 15.6" 2018 FHD TOUCH 1.9GHz i7-8650U 16GB 512GB Quadro P500
Refurbished Lenovo ThinkPad P53s 15.6" Core i7-8665U 16GB 1TB SSD Windows 10 Pro
Custom Lenovo ThinkPad P53s 15.6" Laptop Core i7 Min 1.80GHz Windows 10 / 11 Pro
I wouldn't recommend anything below 4 physical cores. Don't bother with the P50 - pick them only if the online benchmark is satisfactory according to you.
Now, for the iGPU ones, just search for Thinkpad T14 or X13 on eBay, and get a PC with 16GB or more RAM under your budget. X13 isn't performant enough, and has no SODIMM memory. T14 on the other hand has one onboard and one SODIMM memory, so you may be able to upgrade in the future.
Yeah, thanks! I wish I could say more but I am on my tablet.
Thankfully, the Thinkpads and Precision laptops are quite durable - these devices have a really good chassis, so you don't have to worry about micro-cracks in the motherboard. If you want something more rugged, you could go for the Toughbook and the Precision Rugged series, but they're going to be really expensive, which is not worth it. Since I am not still not sure about your actual use-case, it would be hard to recommend devices, but assuming that you don't need a dGPU, the T-series and X-series would be the best bet (and even the P-series, if there's a variant without the dGPU).
Frankly? I want to use it for gaming as well and video-editing. Other things besides school and Internet. Basically, for as many functions as possible.