Comment by hxorr
7 days ago
Here's what happened to the thinkpads I've owned... R51 - sold R50p - died (bad VRAM) X201 - Ethernet chip died, speakers died, bad keyboard - sold X230 - died X230 - sold in relatively good health X1 carbon gen 4 - best laptop I've owned out of all of the previous thinkpads by far
People go on about thinkpad reliability, but I've had two straight up die on me...
To be frank, I don't get the hype for the older models. They're slow and clunky. The newer chiclet keyboards are fine once you get used to them.
The X Series was always their cutting edge compact models - makes sense they would be as reliable. Personally I always like the T series as they were total tanks (considered mid range at the time).