I'm still on the same Sony Vaio that I got 13 years ago. I bought the best I could afford back then (more than 2K USD) and it has held up nicely. Fell in love with the keypad. The screen is 4:3, which is nice. Had to replace the HD and battery and add another stick of RAM along the way.
I find this very interesting. More details please, if you may: What's your OS configuration? How's the screen held up all these years? What sort of comments do you get about it in public? :)
I believe it came loaded with Windows XP and I had a dual boot situation for the first few years. Now it's only Arch Linux with Openbox WM. Lightly peppered with pixel defects now, but it's hardly noticable. It came with 512 MB of RAM, now 1GB. The only comments I get are about the 4:3 screen, which everybody loves.
