I recently asked work to replace my brand new Apple (with the infamous touch bar, 16GB, 256 SSD, etc etc) with a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon 6th Gen.
Couldn't be happier.
Got a 16 GB, i7, 512 GB NVMe SSD (no NVidia).
Brilliant laptop, fantastic screen, keyboard and the trackpad is very good - although I gotta hand it over to Apple, they do a great trackpad.
What surprised me most of all is battery life. I usually get in to work at 8 AM and by 12 PM it still running (about 10% or so left). I do have a few things running:
- postgres, redis, elastic search and kibana on Docker containers
- Terminator, VSCode, Firefox and Slack open all the time
- From time to time rails and rspec (guard)
Couldn't recommend it more. I'm running Arch + i3.
Good luck