I'll put the counter to you - if you could have a hinge that goes 180 degrees why wouldn't you? There's no advantage to limiting it. With cheap laptops there's

I'll put the counter to you - if you could have a hinge that goes 180 degrees why wouldn't you? There's no advantage to limiting it. With cheap laptops there's always the kind of implied "this hinge is cheap and crap so in 3 years time it's just going to sit at the maximum open point", but the Thinkpads are way more resilient than that.