Don't use a lappie much tbh, but I do actually have a Lenovo X300 for almost exactly five years. I've only had one major problem with it, I bought a (OEM) slimline charger maybe a year after I got it, and it basically fried itself and the PSU on a trip to Dublin. They repaired it under warranty, and although they didn't put the keyboard back quite right, it's been grand ever since. Batteries don't last as long as they used to of course, but that's par for the course.
Performance wise it's always been fine for my needs, but my needs are rarely strenuous. However I do buy high-end with an eye to longevity, so I specced it with an SSD when they were kinda new to market, and I filled it to capacity with RAM. (I don't do that any more, these days I buy as little as possible and upgrade myself as and when it's needed, it works out a lot cheaper. Ditto disks.) Even has a GSM radio, although I've only used it a few times.
It doesn't get knocked about a lot, but the chassis in Thinkpads are renowned for being able to take a lot, which is partly why I went for it. There isn't a scratch on it though, genuinely, the rubbery coating just fends everything off bar fingerprints, and I'd prefer fingerprints to dents and scratches.
Would I buy again? I'm actually waiting for the Thinkpad Yoga to come to market. So it'll be replaced with an even smaller screen - albeit with a digitizer, stylus and folding screen - early in the new year. I reckon that's testament enough.
(My desktop computer is 2 years older again, bought it in October 2006. It started to annoy me a few months back so I swapped in an SSD and it flew, however as apps eat more and more RAM it started erroring out on me recently. So I did some research and found that despite Dell's official specs, it'll take another 4GB of RAM. I reckon that'll see me through until next October, which seems to be New Computer Month for me. Xmas presents for self!)
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