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Some of the issues in the article seem to have been caused by the push to make laptops smaller: internal battery, fewer ports. A natural solution would be to change the series you use to a larger one — e.g., go from X to T, etc.

I owned T440s (note the "s" for slim version), but later switched to T490 exactly for this reason. The non-slim T490 is actually thinner than the T440s was, because of the miniaturization trend, and has all the right ports (alas, still no external battery). Absolutely no power, suspend, etc issues at all under Arch.