Originally Posted by
ou81two
You have to go pretty long with an MBP for it to have no resale value. It's the best designed laptop in the marketplace. That's coming from someone with an MBPr, $3000 Precision laptop and a new model XPS13. The people who actually innovate should be rewarded.
One of the guys on my team has burned (literally) through 3 MBPs doing similar work to what I do. The first two might have been a coincidence. The 3rd, I'm thinking not. Lets just say that their resale value was minimal.
I've had a T60, a T61, two T400s, and now two T420s. While I was with IBM, I purchased similar models through IBMEPP for other family members. The T60 had a hard drive failure while using it on a train, most likely due to the crappy rails between BON and POR. That's the only issue I've ever experienced with IBM/Lenovo notebooks, and it wasn't even a Lenovo part.