Re: I can understand
"yesterday I saw an x220 going for £130"
It's a very good lappy. It's robust and portable. With enough RAM, a new battery and an SSD it is not noticeably slower than something 5 times the price for most workloads ... And it has I/O! PCI express may not be the bees knees but you can still pick up a power supply, a GDC Beast, an NVIDIA GTX 750 ti and a nice box for well under £200. You can now pay for all that showing people your laptop and saying you can play Fallout 4 on it. After a few people have bet you £50 you can't, you're in profit!
(Don't brag too much, all my friends wised up after I made £80 in 3 bets)