i keep hearing about these immortal thinkpads that live forever despite being handled roughly and used as a substitute football, even post-IBM ones, meanwhile i picked up my thinkpad with one hand one too many times whereas the motherboard was designed to be delicately placed on either a flat surface or 2+ hands so now if i turn it on it screams at me and shows me pretty patterns on the screen

maybe theres some kind of survivor bias at play considering people with unkillable thinkpads tend to buy them second hand

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@codl most people who buy them second-hand get machines that have been sitting on a desk in a dock for three years

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