I am loving my Thinkpad T530, got a 1920 by 1080 screen, great battery, up to 16 gb ram and the discrete nvidia gpu Optimus runs perfectly with Bumblebee if you

I am loving my Thinkpad T530, got a 1920 by 1080 screen, great battery, up to 16 gb ram and the discrete nvidia gpu Optimus runs perfectly with Bumblebee if you aren't satisfied with the built in GPU. Everything else pretty much just works. But yes, use intel hardware. About the only issue I have had is a weird speedup of flash videos with the built in chrome flash driver. Oh, and I'm running Mint, not Ubuntu, which I highly recommend. If the t530 isn't powerful enough, there's always the W530 for a more powerful processor and 32 gigs of ram.