Life Expectancy Dell Latitude E6520

[maxseven]

I have to stick with laptop PC's for business purposes
Given Macrium backup hurdles, does anyone recommend online backup services such as Crashplan?
Thanks!

You need to be doing backups every day as I mentioned before, and while I can't personally use Cloud services owing to ISP limitations, maybe you don't have those. Still, I'd rather have a backup at my elbow/in my fire safe than to rely on the cloud.

If you are truly concerned that your laptop may fail, I would just buy another, similar one. While it seems unlikely you could get a new E6520, I did buy a brand-new E6540 a year ago January from the Dell Outlet store; maybe you should haunt that place to see what you might get.

If I were you though I'd want a machine that would work with my dock(s) also.

BTW I use Acronis True Image to backup my E6540 and owing to a software application problem, I recently had to recover from a backup image just a week or so ago. This has only happened to me a couple of times in the last 10 years, but it's a great relief to have images you can rely on in a dire situation.