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Good quality, good materials, matte screens, great keyboards, usually very linux compatible, durable, user raplacable parts (atleast in older models)... basical

Good quality, good materials, matte screens, great keyboards, usually very linux compatible, durable, user raplacable parts (atleast in older models)... basically a very capable (although expensive) business laptop. You also have the dell xps series and the old HP probooks, but that's about it. (of course I'm talking about the business class laptops, so thnkpads, mostly T and somewhat X series, since lenovo also produces cheap crap). Also, they used to be made by IBM "back in the day", until the chinese bought the brand and designs.

LeifCarrotson 4y ago
"matte" screens, not good screens! There are lots of x220 and similar with terrible, low viewing angle, 1366x768, low contrast displays. Transplants from XPS series displays are popular for obvious reasons. I think a big part of the appeal is that the business workstations were popular for businesses, and those businesses would operate on a 2-, 3-, or 5-year upgrade cycle and unload used high-quality workstations on eBay for dirt cheap, which also made them popular with the hacker crowd.
- ajsnigrutin 4y ago
  Usually you have multiple options [1], with different resolutions and contrast/brightness levels with and without touch. The cheapest models usually suck, but once you go up a few levels, those displays are pretty good for a business laptop. [1] example for t14 - https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_T14_Gen_2_Intel/ThinkPad_T14_Gen_2_Intel_Spec.pdf https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_T...