Completely true. I recently installed Windows 7 on a new Lenovo T430 and it certainly didn't "just work". Windows Update (or whatever the repository is called)

Completely true. I recently installed Windows 7 on a new Lenovo T430 and it certainly didn't "just work". Windows Update (or whatever the repository is called) couldn't find drivers for the Intel Ethernet controller, Intel Wifi adapter, Ivy Bridge chipset (!) and the Broadcom bluetooth adapter. I had to visit Lenovo's web site and manually download the drivers (the Bluetooth driver was more than 100MB!) This is a top of the line Windows laptop and none of the components are obscure.