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Agreed. Of course the *40 series had a unique feature of getting security and infra architect consultants to slam them repeatedly on the office desks in clients' offices, due to their special and innovative combined top trackpad / trackpoint buttons :D

(I hear ThinkPad is trying that a abomination again, which means my t25 may have to live another 5 years)

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The trackpad is horrible on the *40 series! Can be swapped by the one from the ones from the next generation though.

Your T25 will end up like mine, with a cracked case because of poor design.

Possibly; I did drop it from large height onto hard floor once, and ever so slightly cracked a corner. A little black sugru fixed it up like new. It survived 3 years of weekly travels before covid otherwise, and several years of young kids since, so I'm hopeful that case won't be a problem.

There is a structural issue with the right side hinge, it's mounted in plastic.

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