Your Lenovo died after only six months? That's incredible, they're the current day work-horses in offices all over. My Lenovo laptop has been good for over four years of daily usage and is still going strong.

I'm still not considering myself an Apple fangirl though I do now own a Macbook Air. Are they overpriced? Hell, yeah - hopefully, my Macbook will last a real long time, but - be real, Steve, do you really think that all the other tech giants importing from China aren't part of this?! Of course not.

their usage of cheap labour and bad working conditions for those making these products

And while I get the irk of not being able to replace parts yourself (I built my desktop myself), we're talking laptops here, right? How many people open up their laptops? And when you do, what is there to replace? For the most part everything in there is hardwired, except storage and maybe, maybe! RAM but not very likely. Same with phones, you can replace a battery - that's it.

Anyways, just thought I'd give you my 2c - happy weekend!