My tk 124k Thinkpad has broken after 6 months of service. The usb-c charger port got dipped into water, picked it up that way and inserted into the computer. The charger after that is alright but the laptops charge port is burnt or something and isn't working after that.
As a solution I had another 30k Lenovo laptop sitting in the store unutilized. Dusted it off, charged it, ditched the preinstalled Win 10, installed Fedora, rsynced the work files from the Thinkpad to here -- and well, I have complete working system up within a day.
The only down side I feel is that this one doesn't have a backlit keyboard. And it's very tough to work in the dark without one. Even though I touchtype but need assistant during typing numbers and controls.
Other than that I don't see any dramatic difference between the top end and low end computers. The cheap one I am using now has a 1TB HD, 4GB RAM and probably a dual core celeron processor. But that isn't a factor. That the processor is still a 64 bit is a factor and was enough.
The lesson? You don't need a high end laptop for work. Though it's a nice to have thing if you work in group and everybody quietly compare who has the most expensive one. :V
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- By the way, the Thinkpad possibly can be repaired, But my work can't stop for that duration. Has to continue anyway.