Any new design as sturdy as T61p?

Hesitated moving forward in purchasing W540 or T540p, heard enough about the design change.
Just not sure if the Carbon-Magnasium design is continued into any product line or not?
Needs more processing power, but really enjoy holding a solid slate.
X1, T520, T61p, T60, X61t, T40
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So, I take it that what you guys are suggesting is that Lenovo is leaning towards the path of the sunset... Am I correct?
Because if you are saying that quality is being sacrificed or taking second stage to money or other considerations, then, if memory serves me well, that is about the same that some were suggesting back when Lenovo took over the ThinkPad line of production from IBM, a decade or so ago.
That, of course, may or may not be accurate, but some design modifications recently introduced by lenovo, namely on the keypad layout, as described by others before, seem to point in that direction and they do not look like a good omen. I may be wrong, but if it happens to be the case, then the machine that was the leading horse of the field for many years may have started its long descent to the point of no retiurn...
I strongly hope it won't be the case. Between new and obsolete, I own five thinkpad machines: one A21, one T42, one T61p, one T510, and one W530. And I'm still not looking for other pastures. For the time being...

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