| > there's no Apple Store for thinkpad repairs I pay around 50USD/year for an enterprise grade Thinkpad support plan with Lenovo, where they send an engineer to either my home or office the _next day_, complete with any spare parts needed to fix whatever might have gone wrong, whether it's accidental damage or a hardware defect. I've only needed that support maybe four or five times over the last decade, but each time it's been stellar: new screens, mainboards, keyboards, broken case parts, etc. No caveats or gotchas or 'ooh that voids your warranty' to worry about, ever. It gave me full confidence to run my company and equip all of my devs with Thinkpads that run on Fedora - so much so, that when we were acquired a couple of years ago, my only negotiating condition that caused a stir was the requirement that me and my team get to keep our Linux+ThinkPad stack. What I just described is the polar opposite to every experience I've ever had with anything to do with Apple, ranging from the genius bar arguments to the six week waits to fix our designer's spacebar that stopped working because someone dropped a a breadcrumb in there. It just doesn't compare. Side notes relevant to your comment: - the T420 that you mention is now an 11 year-old piece of hardware, I don't understand why you're referencing it - even so, plastic gets brittle over time. I don't know anyone with a 10+ year old MacBook that still runs - iFixit are heavily biased, or at least they were when the T420 came out (it's in the iName) - with all that said I still can't wait to be able to use a fanless desktop M2 as my daily driver (@LinaAsahi you're awesome) |
My mom daily drives my old 2012 retina Macbook Pro. Neither of us have ever had any problems with it. So it's possible for macs to hit the 10+ year mark!
I also still use my X200 tablet (not as a primary machine anymore, but it decoratively runs Creatures Docking Station 24/7). No crumbling or even any signs of aging plastic. That thing is still a tank.