Comment by nailer
9 hours ago
> ive got a thinpad and the platic build is just terrible. The screen bends when pulling it to open the laptop
Damn. I was at IBM in the early 2000s and for many decades you used to be able to beat people to death with IBM hardware, including Thinkpad laptops and model M keyboards.
I have so many questions.
- Was there a lab where they tested beating people to death with IBM hardware?
- Where did they find subjects? Volunteers, interns, exit-interviews from layoff rounds?
- Now that you can't beat people to death with IBM hardware, what do you use instead?
Shh... we don't talk about those dark ages any more. Times were different.
> Now that you can't beat people to death with IBM hardware, what do you use instead?
I believe IBM hardware is still applicable for this, the Thinkpad just isn't IBM hardware anymore.
The hard part of beating someone to death with a z16 is lifting and swinging a z16; if you can manage that, though...
> - Where did they find subjects? Volunteers, interns, exit-interviews from layoff rounds?
Standard issue for field agents in the corporate acquisitions and consulting divisions.
(Hey, Eric!)
We test these things in production.
The best laptop that I ever had was an Thinkpad T530 back in ~2012 - that chunky brick felt like it was made from recycled soviet tanks.
Modular as hell - trivial to swap out batteries, cd-rom bay with an extra SSD, RAM upgrades, keyboard itself.
Thinkpad build quality depends heavily on the model. The flagship T-series are still tough as nails, generally speaking
They built a reputation on that and silently replaced the plastic with crap abs. Thinkpads have been garbage since 2012. Not specs wise but build quality wise. Spec wise it’s always been a beefy machine.
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