Thinkpads Forum

I usually use my t61 with a replicator 90% of the time.. keyboard mouse, flatscreen... just curious for those of you who use the hell out of the laptops how well do they hold up over time of extreme use? I barely use my keyboard on the laptop itself..

anybody?

What was your point of getting a laptop then? Are you moving it around from dock to dock?

Quagmyre wrote:What was your point of getting a laptop then? Are you moving it around from dock to dock?

pretty much.. cause EVERYTIME i dont thats the one time i desperately need it.

My work place has pretty extreme conditions. We make copper wires and the temperature in the factories pretty much kills all laptops, if we don't accidentally drop them from the machinery.

Strangely enough, 3-4 years ago, notebooks with discrete graphics run cooler and run longer on batteries, so we always had to get higher end notebooks for use in the factories. This changed recently and we started getting cheap notebooks with integrated graphics.

My T60 works pretty good so far...

After 6 month of medium usage at home and at university, i can already see shiny spots on all frequently used keys. Pretty disappointing, I have to say..
My 5 year old Dell Inspiron looks worse, but is actually not that far away. Can't imagine that the T61 will last 4 or 5 years. It's way to fragile and cheaply made.

The display hinges have already loosened a bit. I can move the display about half an inch forward when in upright position.
Luckily, it's not that annoying yet since it does not rock back and forth when typing, like other, way cheaper, notebooks. But it is alarming that this even happens. The much praised steel display hinges seem to be only a marketing gag.

I have not had a real IBM ThinkPad before, but I would guess that the much rumored robustness of thinkpads has been gone since the Lenovo-chinese started making them.
There's not much robustness left anyway. Cheap plastic everywhere and an uncovered display cable in the front.
Lenovo's are definately not worth paying 500-1000€ extra for.


Jo

jo2008 wrote:The much praised steel display hinges seem to be only a marketing gag.

Hm...I have a T42 that has seen over three years of heavy use and the hinges are still firm and tight.

I have not had a real IBM ThinkPad before, but I would guess that the much rumored robustness of thinkpads has been gone since the Lenovo-chinese started making them.
There's not much robustness left anyway. Cheap plastic everywhere and an uncovered display cable in the front.

Perhaps, although the Chinese were making ThinkPads long before the Lenovo buyout.

jo2008 wrote:There's not much robustness left anyway. Cheap plastic everywhere and an uncovered display cable in the front.

My X31 has the same wide ribbon video cable visible in between the hinges. Oddly enough the display is still perfectly fine, the same cannot be said about my X21 which has the cable hidden in a hinge cover.