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Originally Posted by Chris is me
In terms of durability, they'll break quickly with drops or tosses. MacBooks hold up better. But the actual hardware isn't flaky at all, no crappy equipment. The card and processor makes everything in Inventor or Solidworks basically painless.
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A little background, RPI offers a Thinkpad package to incoming freshman every year. This past year we got the W500, the previous year was the T61p, and previous years were also from the T60 line.
Have a lot of your friends broken theirs? On the flip side of the coin, I've only seen someone have a hardware issue once (and it was a senior, so the laptop had been around for 4 years). 1276 also had a pair of Thinkpads donated in 2007 from the early 2000s, when one of our sponsors upgraded to new ones. They still worked great!
I was under the impression that Thinkpads had a reputation for being some of the hardiest laptops around. Is this not the case?