I have an X220. It's great. I use it to take notes in my classes and in my tabletop RPGs with MS OneNote. I love being able to cut-and-paste arbitrary segments from the screen (windows-S if you have OneNote installed), paste them into my notes, then type notes and markup the graphics with the pen. It was especially handy for my Molecular Cell Biology class (being able to mark what's relevant on a gel or slide is nice).

The current Lenovo tablet PC (X220) senses the proximity of the pen to the screen and disables the touchpad automatically, so resting your wrist on the screen will no longer mess things up (my previous tablet had that problem and I just disabled the touchscreen altogether). With an i7 in it, mine has no appreciable input lag when I'm writing. The screen's a nice size, so you can get a lot onto it. I use MS OneNote, which can also convert your handwriting to text (and does a pretty good job of it that I've found). I mostly type my notes into OneNote, then past in graphics or use the pen to draw on the screen when I need to put in a formula or chemical structure (I'm working on a Master's in Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology, so math and biology need a bit of freeform input).

I'm in graduate school and I picked up a Lenovo X220 Tablet PC (to replace my previous Gateway tablet PC, which performed admirably for many years). It gets about 6 hours of battery time with the larger battery, the pen input is great and includes pressure sensitivity, and I love Microsoft OneNote for taking notes. The professor gives us PDFs with the slides, and I can either drag the PDF into the app and insert it as a printout so I can take notes directly on it, or I can use the snipping tool that comes with Windows 7 to cut out sections of the slide and paste into the notepad (which makes for better flow than inserting as a printout, but can be time-consuming in class when I'm quickly cutting something out and pasting it in while the instructor is talking).

Dunno if they're still doing it, but CoH had real ads for a while (which could be disabled in the options if you wanted) mixed in amongst their usual assortment of fake billboards. Not sure if all of them were themed this way, but seeing billboards for a T-Mobile Sidekick in a superhero world was actually pretty amusing. :) As long as the ads actually 'fit in' with the world, I really don't mind.

I've had good luck reporting companies to the Better Business Bureau if their customer service is highly uncooperative. I was receiving unsolicited credit card offers from Citi, even though I'd signed up for the permanent do-not-sell list. Their customer service couldn't tell me who sold them my information, but after talking to the BBB, I got a call from someone higher up who let me know Equifax had sold it to them.

I had much worse issues with Alienware, whose customer service was atrocious. I eventually had to go to both the BBB and the Florida Attorney General's office, but they finally swapped out my lemon of a laptop for a new one.

I went to FurryMUCK specifically because I didn't know how to code there. I was staff on every MUSH I set foot on, and that was where I went to not be staff. My blood pressure dropped to almost normal levels after that. :)

I think it boils down to what you do other than playing games. If the only answer is 'eat and sleep', then there could be a problem. I definitely had a problem. I just managed to turn it to my advantage after it had completely ruined all of my plans. I ended up doing something I'm good at, and pays well, but about which I'm not particularly passionate.