I would buy a Medion at about £350 from Woollies or other under £400 LT. They break, they date, they get stolen.
Better to save the £300 drinking tickets and don't forget you will need a printer too.
As a Stude there was a shop in High Wycombe selling non-portable laptops - no battery - in a rather unappealling yellow. Put another way, they were not attractice to a thief.