[ww520]

ThinkPad is amazingly solid. I had two so far and both were wonderful machine. Lenovo's service is pretty good as well. My latest laptop's Intel SSD drive went dead after a year. They shipped a replacement right the way with no question asked.

[kayoone]

And that is one the main reasons why Apple isnt suited for professional users right there. When having a Dell Laptop some technican came the next day to my house and repaired my laptop without any cost. With Apple i can go to the nearest Store and hope that some of the hipsters there want to help me, after which i will have to wait until my repaired hardware comes back from wherever in the world.

[meaty]

Yes and as I found, those annoying hipsters actually are quite rude, arrogant and unhelpful (Kingston Upon Thames Apple Store, Surrey, UK).

An hour to get replacement earphones for my daughter's iPod due to the well known problem of the rocker switch which failing after a week! I asked "so what happens when these fail? Do I have to spend an hour a week down here?". The reply was simply "it's not my problem".

She owns a Cowon now.

[robotmay]

Luckily the Cardiff store has significantly less hip and much more helpful staff. I hate having to book an appointment though; I know what's wrong, I just want to drop it off and for them to call me when they fix it under warranty.

[InclinedPlane]

I had an IBM era T43 for a while and currently have a T60 that's almost as old as Lenovo's take over of the brand, and it's still chugging along. A friend of mine recently upgraded to the t430u ultrabook and has been loving it. As far as laptops go I'm pretty sold on the thinkpad line for the foreseeable future.

[meaty]

I've got a 10 year old T-series (Think its a T21) in the cupboard. It did 7 years service for the original user for 4-5 hours a day. It was dropped and bashed around regularly.

I only keep it because it has a real serial and parallel port but its still going strong!

[gabemart]

I used a T60 as a second monitor for my main laptop and an X40 as my travel laptop. Together they cost well under $150 and I could probably sell them today for what I paid for them. Great machines (although the T60 has a fan speed problem that I fixed with some third party software--without the fix it would be so annoying as to be unusable for me.)

[meaty]

I had the same thing with my T61. It was due to the sense wire on the fan being crimped slightly between the keyboard and roll cage assembly. I managed to fix it with some wiggling of the wire without resorting to fan control software. I also took the entire thing to bits and replaced the heatsink goo with Arctic Silver.

I paid approx $150 for this T61.

[InclinedPlane]

Oh, I've put this thing through it's fair share of abuse. It's fallen off the side of a fairly high couch while open, right onto the side of the screen at least twice. No damage. Once when I was living without furniture I had it on the floor and I managed to knock an entire glass of water over right straight into the most open side of it (the side with the fan intakes, ethernet port, and pc card slots), I pulled the power and battery quickly then drained it and toweled off the outside and let it sit for about 2 days, it was fine.