T430 is fine too, its my daily driver and has the same charger as the T420. I run SmartOS on another t430 with a cracked screen which has a bunch of guest KVM

T430 is fine too, its my daily driver and has the same charger as the T420. I run SmartOS on another t430 with a cracked screen which has a bunch of guest KVM and zones. Runs ZFS in a mirror and 16G ram, backed by an APC unit for the modem router. I blogged recently about my setup here: https://russell.ballestrini.net/weechat-on-boot-in-a-tmux-session/ https://russell.ballestrini.net/weechat-on-boot-in-a-tmux-se... (Hosted on said laptop)