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I felt the same, until I put it in my backpack while on and the video card died. That particular model has a known defect in the soldering on the video vard (NVIDIA's fault), so be careful with how you use it.

Fun fact: apparently, people have fixed theirs by putting the motherboard in an oven to resolder it.

Ah, Bumpgate and BGA soldering problems.

Totally. I've got two of the last non-widescreen 14" T61 laptops. They're fantastic and fairly cheap on ebay today.

Yeah.

I had my IBM Thinkpad T43 replaced by a Lenovo Thinkpad T410, and the quality is not the same, the keyboard feels cheaper.