I used to service ThinkPads when I was independent and they were pretty robust, although parts are insane $$$ as are most things IBM. The company I'm at now is a Compaq shop and at first I was not happy but soon learned the vast differences between their consumer and business lines of products. Night and day! The business laptops are just awesome. Not much in the way of bells-n-whistles, but absolute workhorses. Besides, in a business environment you don't want bell-n-whistles since your paying people for production. The HP acquisition of Compaq is starting to show though as some the new laptops I've deployed are from the HP side and are bricks. Think I'll be hanging on to my trusty N600C for a while yet! ;Dr;