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I guess not anymore. I'd say that until a bunch of years ago, you'd be right. Nowadays, I don't see Thinkpads often anymore. My 0.02.

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Unfortunately. Even a T490 beats an XPS13 easily.

I own both and I'm happy I switched back to ThinkPads.

The T490 is the worst ThinkPad generation to buy right now. The generation they took out the removable battery, soldered half the RAM and generally made some other anti-improvements. So you get the oldest hardware without any of the pre-redesign benefits.

I guess the T495 is worse. Those first gen Zen chips are just terrible.

Really liking my refurb t480 with Ubuntu, however the most annoying thing is that it’s seemingly impossible to get the 2 finger swipe back trackpad gesture working. Otherwise it’s been great.

Switch the trackpad with that of the X1C, and it'll work flawlessly. I did the same on my T470.

I see them everywhere.

On the last 4 companies I worked straight, they were either the only option, or an option between ThinkPad or Mac.

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