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I'm not a BOFH*, and I m certainly not PFY* not any more, but I recon I can think like them.

I recon that BOFH would spring for the full 4 years of  Lenovo Lenovo Premium Online Support on a company laptops cos its the companies  money, even if they were planning on flogging them out he back door long before the 4 years is up. 

They'd not want to fix it. If one does break well there's a form for that, singed and submitted and its marked broken on the bean counters register, Lenovo fixes it and its on eBay by the end of the day. Which I where I got it. 

I bought min on eBay 3 years back. Its now about to go out of warrantee, and I can think like a BOFH, it  unlikely one would have a laptop approaching 4 years old, but if they did they'd probably log every minor glitch an fault the could just before the warrantee expired. Which it what I did.

Lenovo just came and replaced 90% of my laptop, including the motherboard. Thanks Lenovo.

I could be bad mouthing the IT Dept of what ever company originally owned this laptop. I mean they could have given it to a remote worker, who promptly flogged in on Ebay and used their own one. Safe in the knowledge they'd not be asked for it back for years. That might piss of a BOFH, but to be honest it sounds primarily like a bean counter problem.  

Unless of course the Sysadmin was planning on flogging it on ebay.... oh my god there're been a terrible remote workplace accident...

* note for lusers BOFH "bastard operator from hell" and the PFY "pimply faced youth" are the creations of Simon Travaglia spanning decades. You should read them though not on your phone near windows lifts or using a company device.