I wanted a 14" laptop for school to stop lugging my old 17.3" around, so I picked up a 3rd gen Thinkpad X1 Carbon off ebay for like $465 CAD, including shipping from the US (so probably <$400 USD easily without international shipping) i7-5600U, 8GB ram, 256gb ssd, touch screen, and thinner than my wife's macbook air.
It turns out that it runs FFXI surprisingly well, but it needs to have the settings turned down a fair amount to keep the framerate capped. You can also pick up a dock for it for ~$50 so you can use a couple large monitors and a real keyboard with it.
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