very good point, you literally get what you pay for (and are stuck with it). I am really liking my x1 carbon and it performs very well with linux. I do wish I

very good point, you literally get what you pay for (and are stuck with it). I am really liking my x1 carbon and it performs very well with linux. I do wish I had stretched for the 8gb of ram but the 4gb has never been an issue (despite me sometimes running windows in a VM), however my general toolset is quite light (mostly command line based) so YMMV.