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Can't touch Lenovo given their spyware antics and even more recently it was revealed a couple of their mobiles have secret backdoors. Not saying Thinkpads do. It's a vote of no confidence on the whole

That and their sales worm insisted I could run Linux on a t400 I bought new and have no problems with support (paid for NBD repairs.) Screen flakes out and their tech team insisted i reformat to Windows before they're replace an obviously hardware defect

So spying issues and BS salesmen == no more Lenovo for me

Dell developer 13" and 15" can be beefed up pretty nicely. That and Dell is officially supporting Linux through and through; have heard first hand stories of calling in and getting help with Arch related issues. They ended up fixing it in new drivers.

That to me makes Dell the only alternative to Apple (these days I get by fine with a maxed MB Air, running Ubuntu only booting off a tbolt disk into OSX)