I ended up buying a used Lenovo x250 off ebay for a code training program that required Mac but made case by case exceptions for Linux users. It runs pretty we

I ended up buying a used Lenovo x250 off ebay for a code training program that required Mac but made case by case exceptions for Linux users. It runs pretty well with Ubuntu out of the box. I got some additional power savings with installing TLP and etc for Thinkpads.