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An Acer Aspire V3 from ~2013 (my first Laptop). It also has an NVIDIA card (GTX 750M), but I can't remember having any issues with the drives, since you can just apt-get them. Even CUDA works, even though it's not really that useful on a machine like that. Upgraded the RAM to 32GB and installed an additional SSD. The Keyboard broke once and the original Battery was pretty much dead, both could be replaced for cheap. The new battery even is double the capacity and lifts the laptop up a bit which solves the airflow issue it originally had. For a 10 year old device it surely still runs great and still gets used for development when not at home.

Edit: Have been running Backtrack 5, Kali, Parrot, Pop and now Debian.