bells! i'm impressed! this is the first time i've dropped a thinkpad and caused it no damage! i used to go knocking my thinkpads off the desk or bed and they would land on carpetted floor and still crack along hinges and chip off corners but today it fell 1) open and face down 2) at an awkward angle 3) from a greater height than is usual (because i was standing) 4) onto hard ground and what do you know, the thing absorbed the shock and the two sides simply did a clean balletic split along the hinges to lie open 180 degrees flat on the ground, and there wasn't even a moment of pause in the music that i was playing. nothing was broken, hinges still tight, absolutely amazing. i think there might be something to be said for the T series. i still think it's too heavy, but at least it's sturdy!