Quote from: Benjamin Herzig on September 30, 2022, 01:40:44Customized CTO models sold by Lenovo on their webstore are not part of the PSREF, and they have a generic MTM code.
Any guarantee costs money. The buyer on the Lenovo website, when choosing a custom configuration, is free to add a 3-year On-Site warranty to the payment, which is even cooler than the usual 3-year Depot given through large disti. But if he consciously refuses this, then he is his own director and all the risks are on him.
In general, as practice with old Thinkpads has shown, these are not very reliable solutions (relative to other brands) for periods of intensive use of more than 8-10 years (I have an old Thinkpad that burned out, it just started to turn off and turned off one day - the motherboard failed (which in perfect visual condition), although everything else is in perfect condition - I did not expect such a result, hoping that I would use it as a test hardware complex for at least another 4-5 years with eSATA, and there is no longer any maintenance and specialists nearby who are able to understand the problem too , and ordering a new motherboard is no longer possible for sane money, and buying a supported one is obviously a losing situation, while an ordinary "gaming" laptop from MSI is even older than Thinkpad by 2 years, continues to work ...), but within 4- 5 years, if there are no significant factory defects, it is unlikely to fail.
Especially now, electronics manufacturers are clearly not eager to make really high-quality long-playing things, deliberately introducing elements of artificial aging into the construct. 4-5 years maximum and manufacturers expect you to come for a new laptop, even if you are still completely satisfied with the old one (and the latter again depends on the intentional actions and collusion of hardware manufacturers with software manufacturers)