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IBM ThinkPad T42P Laptop (2.00 GHz Pentium M (Centrino), 1 GB RAM, 60 GB Hard Drive) 2373KTU

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Probably the most reliable of all the Thinkpads, well at least in recent memory. Avoid the thinkpads with the Radeon 7500 chip as it has a tendency to overheat and desolder itself from the motherboard, causing erronious errors such as color stripes, corruption and the like. Avoid the T43 as it has problems, T41 known to have some problems, T40 I believe is fairly solid as well. Had my T42 since '04, had no hardware failures of any sort.

I have owned over 4 laptops now and the IBM thinkpad is by far the cheapest and most unreliable laptop. The computer has been unuseable every 4 months. First the battery. Then the power source. Then the harddrive. And now the motherboard, which by-the-way, has to be sent in to be replaced. It will take approximately 2 weeks to get all that back to me. I suggest a Mac or Toshiba. Their parts are not made in China, Mexico, and Malaysia like IBM-Lenovo's parts. I should have never taken the advice of PC magazine. THey do not rate on reliability.

I don't own a thinkpad, but I'm looking into buying one. Usually Amazon.com has good deals, but this isn't one of them. I love T42s, but you should look at the new T43s. They are even better. I hope this helps.