Lenovo VS IBM for quality

[starbearer]

We have the boxy looking Lenovo T420s here in my organization.

Absolutely robust, proper work environment laptops. Durable too. Doesn't get heated up and performance is quite alright.

My 3.5 year old HP laptop at home, is, alas, now a joke. Get super( I mean really) hot, battery's shot etc.etc.

If you're looking for a robust, durable tough one, T420s should do it.

It's no eye-candy though. Looks like a box.

[Denis W. Veteran]

My two personal laptops have been the Dell XPS m1210 (February 2007) and the Alienware m11x (December 2010). The former has had two hardware repairs, but it's still alive today. The latter's fault has been the much publicized hinge issue but other than that, it's still going great.

Then there's my work laptop which I acquired yesterday. A five (?) year old Lenovo Thinkpad T61p. A rather hefty laptop, but at five years old it runs great. Cleaned the laptop (exterior, not interior :p) and it's virtually indistinguishable from a new Thinkpad, apart from the telling "Designed for Windows XP" sticker. And the screen - wow. 1920x1200 at 15.5" (think it's 15.5", it's the top of the line T61p for that era) is surely overkill. And matte screens - makes for a nice change of all the glossy screens I've been in front of. The brightness could use some work, but it's probably due to its age.

Oh and the hard drive sucks. Windows 7 gave it a nice thrashing. Would like to have a faster hard drive, but oh well. I only have this machine until the latter part of next year.

[RandyC]

My two personal laptops have been the Dell XPS m1210 (February 2007) and the Alienware m11x (December 2010). The former has had two hardware repairs, but it's still alive today. The latter's fault has been the much publicized hinge issue but other than that, it's still going great.

Then there's my work laptop which I acquired yesterday. A five (?) year old Lenovo Thinkpad T61p. A rather hefty laptop, but at five years old it runs great. Cleaned the laptop (exterior, not interior :p) and it's virtually indistinguishable from a new Thinkpad, apart from the telling "Designed for Windows XP" sticker. And the screen - wow. 1920x1200 at 15.5" (think it's 15.5", it's the top of the line T61p for that era) is surely overkill. And matte screens - makes for a nice change of all the glossy screens I've been in front of. The brightness could use some work, but it's probably due to its age.

Oh and the hard drive sucks. Windows 7 gave it a nice thrashing. Would like to have a faster hard drive, but oh well. I only have this machine until the latter part of next year.

Yes, the hard disks that came with the T61s are pretty slow nowadays so I moved to a SDD a couple of years ago. I love the screen resolution on those top end 15" models - I've been waiting for something similar to be released before I make the jump to a new laptop hopefully at the end of the year as well.

[Denis W. Veteran]

Yes, the hard disks that came with the T61s are pretty slow nowadays so I moved to a SDD a couple of years ago. I love the screen resolution on those top end 15" models - I've been waiting for something similar to be released before I make the jump to a new laptop hopefully at the end of the year as well.

A refresh of the W line perhaps?

The hard drive isn't that much of an issue now that the laptop is running XP (legacy apps need it). But a Scorpio Black or equivalent in there would be nice. ;)

My 3.5 year old HP laptop at home, is, alas, now a joke. Get super( I mean really) hot, battery's shot etc.etc.

The Pavillions (?) of 2006-2009 or so... something was cursed about those bloody things. One friend had his convertible pseudo-tablet fry its GPU; the screen never turned back on. (He got a Thinkpad Edge after that - pretty nice looking machine for that money at the time.) Another had the wireless radio fail. A third friend ditched his last year for a light ASUS laptop. But yeah, common three denominators for these laptops was the insane heat output at the bottom of the laptop, and it's while the machine is relatively idle!

[togerland]

I currently use an IBM T23 thinkpad with 512mb of ram.... It has a 1.6 pentium 3 proc i think... I run windows 98 on it and basically use it as away to play old games,instant messaging and writing papers for school...