[agumonkey]

I can testify for the sturdiness of these. And X60's aren't the most robust of the pack. But I bang them once a week and yet no glitch. The platform is ancient, a Haswell ULV will be twice as fast for less than 25% of the TDP, with many added niceties (64bits, vt-*, a decent gpu, ...)

[tigerweeds]

I own a T400 and it saved my back twice when sliding on ice. After 5 years of taking it everywhere, it looks like it was barely used. I love it, but damn... a P8600 Core 2 Duo in 2013 is noticeably slow even in browsing.

[pgeorgi]

Haswell has the disadvantage that it won't be FSF-free _ever_.