[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.