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[highroller54]

Need a new laptop for my tool box, gets wet/dirty/abused. These any good?

[Joseph Davis]

Good and expensive.

[highroller54]

I can get a mint barley used one for cheap.

[Joseph Davis]

Fully hardened?

[highroller54]

What's this now? Screen turns around I know.

[mandrel-bends]

Supposed to be very good but $. We use a couple Lenovo T61 older laptops in harsh environments around here and they seem to hold up well too. Think we paid around $500 for each one. 

[Joseph Davis]

Thinkpads, whether IBM or Lenovo, are generally excellent.  You have to be careful of T61 as some have issues.  I'm typing on a 4.5 year old T61 that needs a new GPU fan every second year ($45 plus time) but has been otherwise flawless, but some of the T61 family has serious motherboard or GPU issues.  And, by serious, I mean they are still way more reliable than HP or Dell.  Thinkpads aren't supposed to break.

Honestly, if that's a fully armored Toughbook I'd pick it up to flip it, buy a T400 or T500 (models after the T61) in the sub-$300 range off eBay with some residual factory warranty, and spend the remaining hundreds on hookers and blow.