Thinkpad milking for security

Dude, buy whatever you want. It is your money, no need to bash other people's choice.

Exactly!

Something for the OP to think about tho. Careful about bashing TPs for one day someone with a TP will close up their TP, use it to bash the crap out of your HP then go back to writing their term paper.

So, you registered to complain that people are spending more on a laptop that has a titanium skeleton rather than an all plastic one, has an airbag & rubber bumpers to prevent data loss through an accident (that other manufacturers are implementing as well - Dell, Acer, & Apple being the 3 I can think of off hand). If you'd rather have a consumer oriented laptop instead of a more industrialized system, you're more than welcome to do that. But, even if your dad managed to pick a Thinkpad out of ignorance rather than foresight, you definitely are lucking out, even if by accident. The Thinkpad will be better in the long run. I will tell you, though, that the DV6000T that I worked with in the fall semester was a piece of shit compared to my T43. I'll tell you that it was a piece of shit compared to my T60. But, those are the high end Thinkpads. I could compare the R60, but even then, it's an all-plastic R60 that only is thicker in comparison, but built equally well. So, buy a system that doesn't support modular bays that allows a 2nd battery or 2nd hdd, doesn't have docking station support, has hinges that will go out in a year (the DV I worked on in the falls has about an inch of play in the hinges now from wearing out), and doesn't support extended batteries. Be impressed by glossy screens that require that you focus on reflections rather than the screen itself (I admit it looks better, but I want to see what I'm doing, rather than my ugly mug in the "mirror"), and fancy imprint glossy plastics that leave smudges rather than a magnesium alloy shell (or CFRP, depending on the model) It's not going to hurt our feelings when ours chugs along year after year while you're looking for a replacement fairly quickly. My wife is using a 4.5 year old X30 that, while somewhat weak these days (P3-m 1.2ghz, 512mb RAM, 40gb hdd, Atheros ABG), has been dropped a half dozen times(or at least got knocked off the table or bed), STEPPED ON(she stepped on the lid with the system closed, and nothing happened), & used daily at college and has traveled about 30,000 miles. It's still chugging along strong, with no replacement planned because she thinks it's "cute and tiny". At one of my former workplaces, we were using 6 year old Thinkpad 600Es (P2 366, 128mb RAM, 8gb hdd) before they upgraded to X30s. They'll last forever because what you consider a "false security" translates to the rest of us as "built like a (featherweight) tank".

Don't see how you think it's wasting money. I just configured a dv6000t and a T60 widescreen to the same specs and the Thinkpad came out to $5 more. Considering you get a MUCH better built laptop for that $5, go ahead and get the HP then cry when it accidentally falls and is broken. It doesn't matter how careful you think you'll be with it, shit happens. And you have the option to get a better CPU and LCD on the TP if wanted, you don't have those options on the HP. Plus it doesn't get pre-loaded with a ton of crapware.

what a waste of a thread....

@OP: what exactly is the point of your posts? Surely you didn't expect support or sympathy for your comments and point of view in the IBM section.

The person paying for the new machine wasn't apparent to me while reading what you had to say. If your father will be buying for you, yours must be the most ungracious, ungrateful posts I've ever seen here at NBF. Even if you'll be buying your own machine, your dad is just looking out for you, and Father Knows Best, you know.