[Astronaut]

I just bought a ThinkPad T400s. Awesome machine! Check it out on Lenovo’s site. And I didn’t consider a Mac.

[LearnsFromMistakes]

And I didn’t consider a Mac.

it can be expensive to consider a mac. I own 2 macbooks, and paid about 1k per. I walk thru best buy and see all the $400 laptops...a little 'price envy'.

[AFreeBird]

I love ThinkPads. Been using them since the mid 90's. I'm currently running a T61 with OpenSuSE, and Winders (W2K & Win7RC1) in VirtualBox. I cannot stress enough how much I absolutely HATE a trackpad mouse, but the TrackPoint/UltaNav on the ThinkPad is perfect (I disabled the pad part in BIOS).

My Last ThinkPad, a T30, I dropped a couple of times while it was running. Even broke off a corner on the front outer shell. Didn't miss a beat, and kept on running both times. The only issue I ever had with it, was more my fault. I kept the thing running so much, and I have fury critters, that the CPU fan got clogged up and began giving fan errors, running slow and making noise. Download of the service manual; disassembly is remarkably straight forward; removal of the heat sink fan, cleaning and re-assembly took care of the problem. Anyway, the mouse is a reason I won't buy a MacBook, or any other laptop that doesn't utilize a trackpoint.

I do love my pocket Mac (iPhone) though.