Plan on ordering the Thinkpad T430 tonight. The price has just gone down from $330 to $300, and on top of being able to run tails smoothly I decided I wanted a pc that was capable of performing my day to day school tasks easily. It's refurbished on amazon, and appears to great reviews by people who I assume none of which are even using it to run Tails, so it seemed like a good deal to me.