It turns out that the longest choice has most attraction to people.

I used to be a ThinkPad user. My first 3 notebooks were ThinkPad. However, 3 years after Lenovo take it from IBM, ThinkPad was changed beyond recognition. Beside the toughness of ThinkPad and a little red track point, I love ThinkPad's keyboard layout. It is the most desktop like layout I ever found.
Now, I have no reason to buy ThinkPad and blindly compare specification from many brands. This time the winner is Samsung. (Though it has horrible keyboard layout because they try too much to mimic Apple's layout.)

Agreed! Trackpoint is one of my reason to buy ThinkPad. However, since ThinkPad is not the same good old one, I've to change to other brand.

Me too. I'm Slackware user since 0.99pl13 era.

All my servers and all my client's servers are Slackware powered. However, after tried Slackware on my notebook for few months, I have to use Ubuntu on my notebook. Because it took too much time for me to install lots of software that is not designed for Slackware, especially for Thai support.

ThinkPad T series is still great. However, Lenovo tend to terminate old fashion ThinkPad and replace with Edge series. They canceled R series, modified X series beyond recognition, etc. In Thailand, it is impossible to buy old fashion ThinkPad in store anymore. I wonder if Lenovo will do the same with the server line.

My only notebooks brand/model is ThinkPad. Now, with Lenovo has done to ThinkPad, I have no choice but to find other brand instead. My preferred server brand was also IBM. If the history repeats itself, I guest I have to find other brand of server.

This is not a ThinkPad anymore. It is other notebook with ThinkPad sticker on it. My crutial functions in ThinkPad (aside from TrackPoint) is keyboard layout. When both were change, it isn't ThinkPad anymore. I'll definitely stick with R400 for a while. After upgrade it to 4 GiB, SSD and new battery. It should be able to stay for another 3 years.

My first SSD, OWC 120 GB SATA2, died in my notebook. It started with hidden data error when write large files (4+ GB). Followed in a few days with CRC error. Finally, it couldn't boot. However, I still could copy most data from it by attacted it to other PC.

My second SSD, OCZ Octane 128 GB, occationally sent a lot of error for few months. Then, suddenly, it couldn't mount any more. However, after secure erase, it worked again without any error.

Server: Slackware on 15 floppies (kernel 0.99pl13) -> Still use Slackware right now after almost 20 years.
Notebook: Slackware 12.0 -> Ubuntu