[the_af]

> Lenovo Thinkpad T-Series here, all hardware functional out of the box

Indeed! Lenovo Thinkpads in my company as well, and everything mostly "just works".

There are also some Samsung Ultrabooks (I heard they have some trouble with the boot partition) and some poor quality local brand clones which break down if you stare at them too hard (but that's independent of the installed OS).

The Thinkpads give no trouble. No idea why they're phasing them out. Cost savings maybe? :(