Buy a Thinkpad, it will last you forever. Preferably a T400 model, because of the 16:10 screen ration, but anything from the T Series up is IBM designed and engineered quality. DO NOT buy anything cheaper than the T Series.
There is also a tablet model btw.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
