If you want to flash libreboot yourself, the X60 will be easiest as libreboot can be flashed internally. If you have the knowledge, equipment, and desire to flash libreboot externally, the X200 and T400 are options and have better specs than the X60.
There are both 32-bit and 64-bit X60's, so I would ask the merchants which they are selling. I have a 64-bit X60 running Trisquel 8, and it is it more than sufficient for the uses you describe. The only thing it's unsuitable for is demanding 3D games. A heavy DE like GNOME 3 might not run very smoothly either. Apart from that, I've run into no limitations. I never run out of my 2GB RAM. If you want to just buy a laptop that has already been librebooted, there are several vendors who sell X200's. Since money is a factor, I recommend Minifree, as they are the least expensive I know of. https://minifree.org/ EOMA68 is a great project to support if you can, and it is just as free as a librebooted laptop. However, unless you are content with either buying the computer card to use with your own monitor/keyboard/etc or are able/willing to print and/or assemble the laptop housing yourself, it will be expensive. gd_scania mentions the Purism Librem. The Librem is freer than many laptops, but less free than librebooted laptops or the EOMA68 laptop. Purism's marketing may seem to imply that the Librem has a free BIOS, but it does not. It uses Coreboot, which has proprietary blobs. It is also overpriced, around $1500. The specications are better than those of EOMA68 or a librebooted X200, but the only reason people think they need those specs is because they use unecessarily bloated software. See Wirth's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law
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