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by isodude 2784 days ago
We use a lot of new Thinkpad at work, it blows HP/Dell out of the water regarding getting stuff done. (Also great on-site support.)

Soon it's the only laptop model used.

Also I guess it works on the Yoga series which is a good contender to macbook pro for home usage :)

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Also X1 Carbon and T4XX series, for light/small laptop types, to say nothing of other X-series ThinkPads. I found a guy on Twitter recently, Roman Zolotarev, who runs a small job board and documents OpenBSD installation, configuration, and so on, for X1 Carbons in excruciating detail -- and apparently the detail is well beyond the needs of the typical install because X1 Carbons are evidently very well supported. My own T4XX is also very well-supported, as are those of other people I know personally who bought ThinkPads in that series for use with FreeBSD and OpenBSD after hearing about my positive experience.
I think most of the enterprises/medium businesses I deal with don't even have contracts with Lenovo at all. Mostly just Dell and HP, and depending on the type of work a lot of Apple too.
My spouse's employer just decided to kill its Dell contract for laptops and go with ThinkPads because Dell's warranty service is so limited/shoddy, and the reason cited is actually a common story. There are more Lenovo enterprise contracts than you think, and those that still use Dell aren't measuring all the costs or are getting very, very special deals.