Ideas on how to find the best (value) business laptop for $400

[Giganizer300PRO]

I'm shopping for a business laptop. The budget is $400, screen size from 11 to 14 inch. I have been browsing on Newegg and I'm seeing a bunch of refurbished 3rd generation Intels. But isn't it better to get a newer lower tier CPU than an older higher tier? I mean 3rd generation, that's 4 years old... And since this is a business laptop, the CPU is the most important. I'm out of ideas on how to find the best value for the $300 - $400 price range. Any ideas? Recommendations? Please help me... 

Also I'm buying for US.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Ebay is normally better for pcies than newegg. Id probably look at a dell e6440/e6420. A older faster cpu is better than a newwer slower cpu. 3rd gen cpu's aren't that old and not that much worse than current ones.

[Finnskii]

1 hour ago, Giganizer300PRO said:

I'm shopping for a business laptop. The budget is $400, screen size from 11 to 14 inch. I have been browsing on Newegg and I'm seeing a bunch of refurbished 3rd generation Intels. But isn't it better to get a newer lower tier CPU than an older higher tier? I mean 3rd generation, that's 4 years old... And since this is a business laptop, the CPU is the most important. I'm out of ideas on how to find the best value for the $300 - $400 price range. Any ideas? Recommendations? Please help me... 

Also I'm buying for US.

Lenovo Yoga 500-15ISK 80R6

You might need a similar variant as I am UK.

*edit Some are out of your price range but if you go fishing for a bit you will find some decently priced ones.

 

Lenovo Yoga 500-15ISK 80R6 15.6″ Notebook - flip design - Core i5 2.3 GHz - 8 GB RAM - 1 TB HDD - White

£269.99 from 3 shops

 

Also available nearby

 

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[Pendragon]

First of all what are your uses for this "business" laptop. Basic excel/word processing, any ULV processor from any generation will be fine. Need to manage thousands of lines of excel with macros and advanced pivot tables while running a powerpoint at the same time (co dependencies), you might want to go for a quad core.

[Mark77]

Go used/refurbished/"open box".

 

I was able to pick up a Dell Latitude E6440 with 1080p screen off of eBay for $299 a couple months ago.  Yes, it needed another $100 in RAM and SSD upgrades, but basically, I have a very nice Haswell laptop for ~$400 in outlay, i5-4310M. 

 

[Dackzy]

OP my I7 second gen ULV CPU in my T420s is as powerful as the i5 6200u and beats every single older i5.

A 3rd gen i7 is better than a 4th, 5h and most like also a 6th gen i5.

See if you can find a ThinkPad, since they are the best business laptops...