T61p Quadro FX 570M - bug free?

[Lockheed]

I want to advice my friend to buy t61p, however I already burnt myself twice on the infamous Nvidia bug.

Are T61s with Quadro FX 570M safe to buy, or do they have to be manufactured after 08/08 to be safe?

[QWERTY Andreas]

They have to be post 08/08 to be bug-free.

The boards from pre 08/08 can sometimes run a long time, but suddenly die. Noone knows why, or when. Sometimes they fail in a short period of time.

However the post-08/08 T61ps are often just as expensive as the cheap W500s - so i would suggest to take a look after the W500. Similar machines, except that the W500 takes the much cheaper DDR3 RAM, have switchable Graphics, supports SATA-II and 8 GB RAM natively, and generally have never hardware.