I'll call BS. Granted, this was a few years ago, but the W520 and W530 had quite a few issues with the Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (APIC), and yo

I'll call BS. Granted, this was a few years ago, but the W520 and W530 had quite a few issues with the Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (APIC), and you had to boot them with `nox2apic`. Additionally, although they had both integrated and discrete graphics cards, only the discrete was routed to the video out (no mux). Switching wasn't good on Linux, so you basically had to force discrete only, which knackered the battery life. All machines can have issues. By all means, shop around and buy the best machine for your use-case. But brand loyalty is misplaced.