I've been buying Refurbished Thinkpads for 15 years. I still have two 10-year-old T420s in active use around the household. There are things I will NOT buy use

I've been buying Refurbished Thinkpads for 15 years. I still have two 10-year-old T420s in active use around the household. There are things I will NOT buy used/refurbished, such as hard drives (I always replace the drive in refurbished laptops and put the refurbished drive into secondary capacity).