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I daily drive an old, used and battered X230 that I got for €80 from eBay, and then maxed out for another ~€200 more (16 GB RAM + 2 TB SATA SSD + new third-party 9-cells battery). I love it, but - that being said - machines this old are not really a good fit for most mainstream users' use cases, whether they are creators, media consumers, or gamers.
They are still extremely capable, but they are held back by (comparatively) crappy displays, power-hungry CPUs, and integrated graphics which lack support for modern codecs.
They are most definitely not worth it at those prices, though - €970 would more than pay for an xyte.ch X330 with 2k display and classic keyboard mod, or a whole fleet of maxed out X220-X230 laptops.
Still, I like seeing people taking them back, instead of letting them become e-waste. I wish more would consider refurbs as an option and be willing to adapt their computing to them, instead of driving the demand for more and more cheap machines with soldered RAM and future spicy pillows in them.
I checked out the xyte laptops.
At first I thought they're too expensive.
Then I went into the detailed custom modifications and upgrades this person makes, and I realized it all added up.
The Framework company (no affiliation) has some wonderful laptops designed to minimize e-waste. I'm so impressed by them that my next laptop would no doubt be one of theirs, unless another company comes out with something more revolutionary.