[linsomniac]

I ran into that on my T470s. The last ThinkPad I've owned and likely will own, for a variety of reasons. I used to be a die-hard Thinkpad guy.

In my case, I was the only one in the company with a Thinkpad, so my process for upgrading the docking station firmware was:

"dd" off my drive to another box. "dd" on the copy of the disc I had saved when I got the computer. Boot it and set it up. Run all the updates. "dd" my drive image back onto the box.

The company I'm at now prefers buying Dell, but I had special requested that Thinkpad. It was kind of disappointing. It had two batteries, which made it slim, but sometimes one of them would be flaky. But not reliably flaky, so sometimes it'd just power off, but most of the time both batteries reported tons of life. And the docking station was basically useless (don't remember the issues, I just never was able to get a satisfactory docking experience from it). It had the ultra high res screen and that was nice.

[tedunangst]

This, except I always buy a new SSD for my own use, then just swap the factory drive back when needed.