I'm not a long-time Thinkpad user at all; but used a 2011 Macbook before I bought my X1 Extreme g2 a few years ago. Mostly because I've heard so many people rav

I'm not a long-time Thinkpad user at all; but used a 2011 Macbook before I bought my X1 Extreme g2 a few years ago. Mostly because I've heard so many people rave about the excellent build quality of Thinkpads. After reading the article, I want to share some of my experiences: By far the biggest advantage of Thinkpads, not mentioned at all in this article, is their spill-resistant keyboards. When I just had my X1E, I accidentally spilled an entire mug on tea over it. I turned it off, watched the tea spill out of the bottom, let it rest for a while just to be on the safe side, opened it the next day to check it and dry it off, and when I turned it on, everything worked fine as if nothing had happened. I suspect I could just have continued working with the tea in the keyboard, but I'm not taking that risk. A kid once spilled lemonade over my Macbook, and that was an expensive new motherboard. The battery life of my X1E is absolutely terrible. There are probably good reasons for that: it's a very powerful laptop in a very thin body, so little room for battery, lots of power, which also needs to be cooled. And on top of that, I've got a 4K OLED screen that probably eats a ton of power. 4K on a laptop is a mistake. Too much power in a thin laptop is also a mistake; it's either noisy, overheats, or throttles. My battery life really seems to be just 2 hours. I can take it places, but I have to plug it in if I want to do anything at all. About screens, the article says: > However, 1920×1080 of their recent 13-inch display model yields a lousy 170 PPI. It’s enough for me, but it is just an average offering even for 2020 when it was released. What’s terrible about this is that Lenovo does not offer better options. I don't know about 13 inch models, but Lenovo definitely does offer much higher resolution for the 15" X1E. But 4K is way overkill. For 13 inch, HD should be plenty. My biggest frustration with my X1E, however, is my laggy mouse. I think it's tied to the hybrid graphics (it can switch between builtin graphics and an nVidia GPU, and is supposed to do so cleverly, though I question that). Screen sometimes (but rarely) flickers rapidly between cooler bluish whites and warmer reddish whites. Switching graphics modes is done automatically and turns my screen black for a second. It does this when I plug/unplug power, for example. Lenovo's onsite support has already replaced the motherboard for this, but that didn't fix it. The mic is also often too quiet, but I think that's Windows. I keep finding weird mic settings in Windows (that are always hard to find) that keep turning down my mic to 20% or so for no good reason. Windows 10 mic support clearly sucks and should be much easier to find.