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I'm currently using a spare T43, but my normal notebook is a T42. The system board fried, (tea does that!) but that said, it never missed a beat before that. I've had the board replaced but haven't bothered moving data off the T43 back to the T42. That thinkpad is abt 4-5yrs old.
I'm biased and I work for IBM. Having said that, I hammer my notebooks day in day. I grab them by the edge of the screen, they get shoved in and out of my bag. They get left on, in hibernation, on standby, the works and rarely, very rarely miss a beat. The keyboard still works fine, albeit some characters are fading.
I install s/w, remove it, re-install, plug periheral devices (usb, usb adapters, external h/drives, printers) and don't get issues.
I'm due for a refresh hopefully next yr, but all in all, very robust machines.
Out of curiousity, what are you thinking of paying?
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