1. wifi has to be perfect, don't care about BT at all 2. Linux support 3. keyboard needs to be usable. ThinkPad is good, Dell is meh, HP is horrible 4. Noise

1. wifi has to be perfect, don't care about BT at all 2. Linux support 3. keyboard needs to be usable. ThinkPad is good, Dell is meh, HP is horrible 4. Noise. And no coil whine. I never even thought about this before my Dell. 5. No headphone jack would be an instant no. I guess I could live with a dongle for USB. 6. battery should not be completely bad. But unless it would be something for travel, not so important 7. I hate all trackpads (incl. Mac), so I prefer ThinkPads anyway