Hard to be Lenovo's for durability, aside from Apple maybe. I've had several Lenovo's, loved all of them. Before I had my MacBook pro, I had a Toshiba L505D, which got the job done, but was an AMD based laptop, and also ran at 1000 degrees constantly. On the whole, stay away from anything AMD based. Dell's current E series laptops (E6320/E6420) are pretty nice, we have been deploying them at work.