Replacing my MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480
Regarding Lenovo:<p>I bought an original Macbook Air. It always worked well. As it got on to about 10 years old, I took it in to an Apple Store a couple miles from my house and asked if they could replace the battery. The battery worked pretty well, but I figured.. the machine was going strong and if they still had batteries in stock, I should grab one now and the laptop will live even longer. They replaced the battery for $99 and when it came back (3 days later), they also replaced the motherboard for some reason. I don&#x27;t know why, but basically, aside from the screen and the keyboard, it&#x27;s a new machine. I still use it today -- the only thing I can&#x27;t really do on it is edit 4K video.<p>Two years ago I bought a Lenovo gaming laptop for my son. A couple of weeks ago the keyboard stopped working. We bought a replacement keyboard and swapped it out. Still didn&#x27;t work. So, something on the motherboard. When we called and asked about getting it fixed, they said it wasn&#x27;t in warranty anymore and the price to diagnose and replace the broken part couldn&#x27;t be estimated, nor could they estimate how long it would take. We&#x27;d have to ship it to a third-party repair center. So my son is walking around his college campus with a Lenovo laptop and an external keyboard, for a laptop we bought 2 years ago for almost $2,000.<p>So, no. No Lenovo for me. And given my previous stupendously negative experience with Dell (they couldn&#x27;t repair 2 brand new machines that were shipped to us with broken WiFi and took so long to declare it unrepairable the machines couldn&#x27;t be returned either -- two machines bought together had to be reported in separate calls to tech support and the third party tech support people who came to the house weren&#x27;t very knowledgable -- calls disputing the non-returnable declaration took so long to return and were bounced among so many unhelpful people at Dell Headquarters they basically convinced me to give up, buy third-party wifi cards and live without Bluetooth in these machines), no Dell XPS laptops for me either.<p>On those experiences, I&#x27;ll only spend my own money on Apple laptop hardware.