Stay the hell away from Lenovo Thinkpad's -- they've become quite nasty and unfriendly in latter years. Even before the issues below, they were doing BIOS-level stuff, like locking you to whitelisted IDs so you couldn't repair/replace/upgrade parts yourself, and Linux compatibility was not something they cared about maintaining for drivers.

On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 at 20:33 Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> wrote:

On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 10:22:30 AM Brian May wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 at 19:33 Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> wrote:
> > Now the question is what vendor do I use for my next Laptop? I think
> > that Lenovo has demonstrated that they can't be trusted.
>
> Lenovo in their official statement say that "Think-brand PCs are
> unaffected." and "The software does not come loaded on any Think-branded
> PCs."

But the people who thought it was a good idea were involved with the Think
branded PCs.

> http://news.lenovo.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=2013
>
> Which presumably means all Thinkpads are OK.
>
> Still, they seem intent on destroying their Lenovo brand name reputation
> however.

Yes.