I built myself a Frankenpad T440 in Jan. Paid £180 for it on ebay (grade A used) about a year ago. Bought a 2018 MBA which was a pile of shit so decided to retu

I built myself a Frankenpad T440 in Jan. Paid £180 for it on ebay (grade A used) about a year ago. Bought a 2018 MBA which was a pile of shit so decided to return that and make the T440 better. I swapped the screen out for a FHD one for £39, T450 touchpad (biggest upgrade!) for £20 and new 76Wh battery for £39. New Samsung 256Gb 850 Pro disk (cant remember how much that cost). Upgraded RAM to 8Gb by recycling an HP EliteBook. Copied windows 10 ISO and keypass keychain to the built in 16Gb SSD so I can recover it offline from my S3 backup target. It's amazing. You'd have to pry it out of my cold dead hands. It's not the best laptop possible but it's an excellent compromise it in total it cost less than 1/3 of a MBA which had dubious "utility" compared to it.