

I bought it for 1000€ back then (T470), I’ve invested around 400€ in it again.
Still has 10 hours of battery life, 2TB SSD, and 32 GB RAM. The i5-7200U is not the fastest by today standards. But it’s enough for what I use. It’s well made, and the keyboard is very nice.
It absolutely made sense economically for me. I also expect still a few years of useful life out of it. (The Win 10 support end doesn’t matter to me, since I’ve already switched to Fedora a few years ago)
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.