Agree with several other commenters. My priorities, most important first, are: 0. Everything must work with a free OS without requiring binary blobs. 1. A goo

Agree with several other commenters. My priorities, most important first, are: 0. Everything must work with a free OS without requiring binary blobs. 1. A good full-sized keyboard with a sane layout, preferably mechanical with blue Cherry switches (hey, a guy can dream) even if this adds a few millimeters and a few ounces. If this is impossible, the bare minimum is the equivalent to last year's Thinkpad keyboard. I was all set to buy a Thinkpad this year, but they lost me when they dropped the traditional keyboard. I tried their new chicklet keyboard in a store and... well, it's a chicklet keyboard. 2. 15 inches Macbook-like quality screen with at least 1920x1200 resolution. 3. Fast SSD and at least 8GB ram, expandable of course.