I'm looking for a new laptop for a friend. She has a work issued Mac, but wants a PC too. It will be used for general office type stuff, web browsing, etc., so no need for fancy graphics. The catch is she's hard on hardware. Her Dell Inspiron (Nehalem/Westmere era i5) has held up pretty well, but it's quite dinged up at this point and her phones usually make it 2 years tops.
Basically I'm looking for a pretty normal "business" laptop that's tougher than average. 14-15.6" screen, i3 or i5, etc. The one sort of premium thing I'm looking for is better than 1366x768 screen resolution. 1600x900 is fine, just want more than 1366x768. It doesn't need to be super light, but no bricks please. I can upgrade the ram to 8GB and add an SSD myself. mSATA/PCI-e SSD + HD would also work. She mostly wants space for music and pictures and such.
I'm kind of thinking ThinkPad T440/T540 or some sort of Dell Latitude. Preferably under $1200 since I can get a T440 set up how I want it and add a 512GB SSD for about that. Any other suggestions for a well built and durable but otherwise pretty normal laptop?
Basically I'm looking for a pretty normal "business" laptop that's tougher than average. 14-15.6" screen, i3 or i5, etc. The one sort of premium thing I'm looking for is better than 1366x768 screen resolution. 1600x900 is fine, just want more than 1366x768. It doesn't need to be super light, but no bricks please. I can upgrade the ram to 8GB and add an SSD myself. mSATA/PCI-e SSD + HD would also work. She mostly wants space for music and pictures and such.
I'm kind of thinking ThinkPad T440/T540 or some sort of Dell Latitude. Preferably under $1200 since I can get a T440 set up how I want it and add a 512GB SSD for about that. Any other suggestions for a well built and durable but otherwise pretty normal laptop?