Re: Honestly....
I've told this tale around here before, but... my previous employer habitually issued Thinkpads to employees. Proper, IBM ones, rock solid, could be used to batter rabid elephants to death if need be.
Well one year - this would be around 2008 - our IT dept was experimenting with alternative vendors, and issued me with an HP Elitebook of some sort.
It seemed OK, reasonably well put together.
Until I was at a training conference in San Francisco, seated (like the goody-two-shoes Teacher's Pet that I am, on the front row right in front of the instructor), typing notes, and a key flew spontaneously off my keyboard with a sproing!! sound and landed on the instructor's desk right in front of him. True professional that he was, he picked it up and handed it back to me without missing a beat :)
So yeah, I insisted on Thinkpads after that one.
I always knew the rot had set in at HP when they ran that mawkish advert a few years ago, gushing about how they were building on the heritage of Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, "and look here's the actual garage they started in, etc etc."
When a company starts telling everyone about its wonderful "heritage" and "values"... run.