I have using IBM thinkpads for my job for about 10 years now (yes from about when they started making them) and I must say that they are some of the most robust laptops on the market. My laptop comes with me everywhere and I travel a lot for my job, inside and outside the USA. I dropped my laptop by accident a couple of times and everytime the computer was still working. Although IBM recently sold his PCs and laptops division to Lenovo they are still built using the same quality standards. I was told that Lenovo computers will keep the IBM label for at least 5 years.