I see myself going down this road as well. I have an international trip coming up that is a little risky for my MBP so I am going to pick up a beater Thinkpad a

I see myself going down this road as well. I have an international trip coming up that is a little risky for my MBP so I am going to pick up a beater Thinkpad and install Arch. If that works out well my next laptop will likely be the Thinkpad X1 carbon series. They seem like good machines.