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Is turning a few screws and running Linux (or pirated Win 10 LTS/cracked Win 11) an option? I'd personally get an old Thinkpad X270.
Small, compact, robust, really good keyboard, long battery life. All around high quality, those were $2000+ when they were new (and they are below $200 now).
It's also the first model that has USB-C charging, and the last model to still have upgradable RAM (so I'd max that out). And I'd probably put in a new SSD, new battery (if the previous owner used it much). Maybe get a SIM for it, so you don't have to tether if you want internet on the go.
But honestly, you probably don't even need to open it up if you mostly do Word. Most corporate leasing models (and many used X270s will be from that category) never ran on their batteries, and text processing doesn't need 32GB memory and a fast SSD.
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