There's a reason I went with an overpriced Clevo from System76. It has it's warts and the build quality really isn't there for how much I paid. But I turn it on, and everything works. I enjoyed compiling the kernel and chasing down little problems on desktop linux machines when I was a lot younger, but now I just want a laptop I can rely on and get things done with. Without knowing any specifics and not really caring, it was easy to glean that Lenovo had burned the ThinkPad's reputation some time ago when I was planning my last purchase... I'm having a hard time sympathizing with the author.

> The LCD. Ok, 3k was a bad idea, I hate not seeing individual pixels

This is sort of representative of TFA for me. He's whining too much.