Fujitsu laptops are sort of secret favorites of us here at BBG: they just make well designed, affordable laptops with long battery life and tablet screens without a lot of fanfare and guff. Rob swears by his, only lamenting it can't run OS X.

Fujitsu's latest promotion is their Lifebook 4 Life campaign. Only available right now on their British website, any one who purchases a new Lifebook notebook until March 2009 will be able to get a brand new replacement Lifebook "of like for like specifications" every 3 years for the rest of your life, as long as you purchase the three years extended warranty.

There's an inclination to do a bit of sneering at that offer: in three years, a replacement Lifebook of the same specs is going to seem crusty, and in six or nine, it'll look antediluvian. But actually, I think this is a pretty safe bet for consumers: there is almost zero chance that in even three years, Fujitsu will be even able to scrape together the parts for a brand new "like for like specification" laptop. I'd say it's a pretty safe bet that every three years, you'll simply be sent Fujitsu's lowest cost entry level laptop.

I think that's a win: sure, it might not be the best laptop Fujitsu's got to offer, but it's basically a program that sends you a free back-up laptop for the rest of your life.

Lifebook 4 Life [Fujitsu]