> since Lenovo has been caught in the past shipping laptops with spyware

Are you referring to [1]? Since I will be installing OpenBSD on this machine, I won't be affected by it. I do have to trust their BIOS, though, and unfortunately there is no easy way around it on modern hardware, unless you want to limit yourself to something supported by e.g. coreboot.

> manufactured by a dishonest company, in an authoritarian country

Macbooks are manufactured in the same country, but yes, I do understand your sentiment re: "dishonest" company - very few Chinese manufacturers can be fully trusted, as e.g. Chinese government has a lot of coercion power.

[1] https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-S-Series-ThinkPad-Yoga...