Nice deal.

I have a T420s that was bought new and I love it as a computer -- but when I go to grab a laptop to work on 'on-the-road' I nearly always grab my old X201s + big battery that I bought on ebay for 80 bucks total.

If I was to buy a T420 now-a-days i'd check out eBay. Great deals on older hardware, especially if you don't mind repairing small problems yourself.

Yeah, I was tempted to pull the trigger on that. I recently acquired a Dell Precision M4400 for a good deal and put an SSD in it, so I'm using that with Xubuntu as my primary now.