I agree with you on display quality. I picked up a ThinkPad x220 for not much money, but I swapped an IPS panel into it because the TN panel it came with was re

I agree with you on display quality. I picked up a ThinkPad x220 for not much money, but I swapped an IPS panel into it because the TN panel it came with was really, really awful. I don't even hate all TN panels - the one one my old MacBook Air was quite decent. When you start getting up toward MBP prices, you can find ThinkPads with decent displays. Even some of the older W series came equipped with a 3k matte IPS, which I found quite nice. I prefer the W series keyboards over the new MBP keyboards as well, but I found the trackpad on my W540 to be ridiculously awful. It's not exactly cheap to buy one of these machines on eBay, but they aren't crazily expensive either.