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by temac 3599 days ago
I have a T530 at the moment and I'm really happy with it. I bought it with a quite high end config (but not the most possible) ~ 3 years ago and it is still competitive to most new high end laptops; of course it is bulkier and heavier, that's the main drawback. Other than that, the only thing that could be better for me would be the FHD screen, which is not bad but not perfect either - a previous Lenovo with only a lower end HD screen felt paradoxically better on some aspects, like the contrast, even if its colors were also less accurate. And I would not be against extra autonomy, of course, but it is already correct with a big 9 cells battery.

I've started to look at current models to see if I could replace it and for now it seems to be very difficult. Of course they all tend to be smaller and lighter and with more autonomy and a CPU that can be faster, at least for short period of times, but current models also seems to be plagued by either some various quality or design pb (like the XPS 15 or the Surface Book), or have some specs that I don't like (glossy screen, bad keyboard, extremely off-centered touchpad, ...) or even directly disqualify them (RAM < 16G -- I already have 16G on my 3 years old laptop, why would I buy a new one with less RAM?)

I might consider an MBP, despite the glossy screen. It seems to have less quality / design issues than even very high end PCs. And as a bonus the screen ratio is slightly less stupid.

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Have you looked at the T460p? Quad-core Skylake, Nvidia GPU, 32 GB RAM, M.2 (unofficial in WWAN slot) + 2.5" drive, FHD IPS display without PWM flickering, 6-cell removable battery.