Originally Posted by
number_6
Another difference is warranty (most T61p models still come with the IBM style warranty, 3 year onsite service -- which is great). Most of the T61 models do not (they have 1 year carry-in warranty). That might be the biggest difference between your choices (or the specific models you are looking at might have identical warranties). ...
We have always selected the 3 years onsite warranty for our Thinkpad purchases in the office. I had purchased 3 years depot warranty for my home Thinkpads. Unless you are buying something from the Lenovo "outlet store" web page, additional warranty is always an option.
The onsite warranty in general had seen a gradual degradation over the years. Now they may take up to a week to fix something due to longer lead time on parts. We now keep a spare Thinkpad in the office to mitigate this delay. The depot service had always been very good to me although I haven't had to send something in in the past few years. Even with this degradation, we still feel Thinkpads are better than other brands.