I didn't buy an expensive notebook - I had a second hand P133/32Mb RAM one from 1997 which was stolen about 9 months ago, and I recieved a brand new replacement. Turns out the obsolete POS I had was "business grade" so the insurance company had to upgrade the quote (nearly doubling it) to a replacement business grade one. It ended up being 5 times the cash value of what I originally paid for the old laptop.
It's effectively already obsolete but I can see this one lasting a while.