My Lenovo Thinkpad X200 is, in my opinion at least, one of the best laptops out there. Unless you really need the extra oomph in performance, you shouldn’t pay sky high prices for these top of the line laptops out there. I got my Thinkpad off of ebay for £209.99, the base price was £179.99 but I shilled out an extra £30 for a RAM and an SSD upgrade (120Gb –> 240Gb, 4Gb –> 8Gb).