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ThinkPads are generally pretty good. Got mine for ~£450 on eBay and it's got ridiculous specs for that price (4k display, discrete GPU, 2 nvme slots, 32gb of ram and an 8 core 3.6ghz i7)
I think it lasts about 5 hours of light use on Linux but like many ThinkPads you can swap out the battery so bringing a spare charged battery with you is an option if need be
What kind of spec is that ?
Very high spec for the money, old hardware but still far more powerful than many modern laptops that are more expensive
You're not going to be running cyberpunk at 4k on it but for all of the things you mentioned it won't even break a sweat
Just make sure you pay attention to the specs because there are different builds of them with different amounts of memory, GPU and screen resolution I believe