I applaud your ability to be a savvy consumer and to stretch your money as far and as well as you can. I wish that it was true for more of the population. At point: what would you have done if something more expensive happened to your laptop? As the cost for repair parts increases less and less people will have the ability to pay to repair their loved devices.
Depends on what would have happened. I’ve dropped it multiple times, and I even once stood on it accidentally. Luckily, the Laptop is built very well, so it didn’t got damaged.
In the first 3 years you’re covered by the warranty if you don’t accidentally damage it.
And for 5 years you can get spare parts from Lenovo for the T-Series, which aren’t very expensive. So I would have probably fixed it with them. After that it would have depended on the availability and the price of the spare part vs buying a new laptop.
I even considered replacing it when I bought the last new battery a few months ago. But the new Thinkpads have really small batteries (only 50Wh while mine has 96Wh) and shitty battery life. So it wasn’t that enticing to spend 1300+€ (and that’s usually the crappy base configuration. They charge obscene prices for more RAM/SSD) to buy a laptop which is less useful for me.
I applaud your ability to be a savvy consumer and to stretch your money as far and as well as you can. I wish that it was true for more of the population. At point: what would you have done if something more expensive happened to your laptop? As the cost for repair parts increases less and less people will have the ability to pay to repair their loved devices.
Depends on what would have happened. I’ve dropped it multiple times, and I even once stood on it accidentally. Luckily, the Laptop is built very well, so it didn’t got damaged.
In the first 3 years you’re covered by the warranty if you don’t accidentally damage it.
And for 5 years you can get spare parts from Lenovo for the T-Series, which aren’t very expensive. So I would have probably fixed it with them. After that it would have depended on the availability and the price of the spare part vs buying a new laptop.
I even considered replacing it when I bought the last new battery a few months ago. But the new Thinkpads have really small batteries (only 50Wh while mine has 96Wh) and shitty battery life. So it wasn’t that enticing to spend 1300+€ (and that’s usually the crappy base configuration. They charge obscene prices for more RAM/SSD) to buy a laptop which is less useful for me.