[csmuk]

T60p was far superior build to any MacBook ever made. My old T61 which is virtually identical had the living crap beaten out of it 10 hours a day for 5 years solid and it still works fine today. It had a new battery and a new fan and that was it.

Well worth the investment.

[Uchikoma]

As someone who owned severals Lenovos at work, and several MacBooks at work, from my experience 3 Lenovos broke the plastic rim of the screen and keys flew out, MacBooks have all been fine and upgraded to new ones while still working.

[supercoder]

How'd the MacBook you were comparing it to fair ?

[csmuk]

Long post. This should cover it. Family of 5 history of Apple and Lenovo/IBM kit:

2010 MacBook Pro (DEAD 2011 - caught fire after water spillage next to it - WTF). 2006 MacBook Pro (DEAD 2008 - logic board failure). 2007 MacBook (DEAD 2010 - logic board failure). 2006 Intel iMac (DEAD 2008 - backlight). 2007 Mac Mini (sold 2009 - worked fine at the time).

2005 IBM T43 (ALIVE - sister's daily driver). 2006 Lenovo T61 (ALIVE - backup machine - stopped using it in 2012). 2007 Lenovo T400 (ALIVE - bought 2012 second hand. My daily driver). 2008 Lenovo X200 (ALIVE - mail server because it's cheap to run).

All of the above have lived a HARD life.

The only Apple kit I have that is still alive is a 2008 iPod Nano that barely works (to be expected here). Two iPad 2's (one barely manages 2 hours on battery - replacing that will be fun!) and a brand new iPad Mini Retina.

Apple kit stinks from my experience.

I don't want to hear the favourite defence of "anecdote" to this post. Once probability. Twice coincidence. Thrice certainty.