[ltp] Reliability

[Jeffrey L. Taylor]

I am looking at replacing my T41, it is starting to show wear and occassional
disk errors on backup.  The June 2009 Consumer Reports placed Lenovo near the
top for reliability.  The December 2009 issue puts them at the bottom.  Has
Lenovo's reliability slipped that badly?

It occurs to me that IBM essentially had no consumer grade laptops.  Are the
business grade laptops as reliable as even, but the newly introduced consumer
grade laptops dragging the average down?

TIA,
  Jeffrey