Laptop Choice?

I currently use 2 laptops, both Thinkpads.

The old laptop is my home one, and the one I take on holiday... I don't really care if it breaks, it's a Lenovo Thinkpad X220. It works great but looks a bit corp/fugly.

The new laptop is my work and home one. It's a Lenovo Thinkpad X250. I really love it.

The great things:

• It looks like a Mac Powerbook, but just in black.
  
• The ability to plug in ethernet is wonderful, especially as ethernet is generally free in hotels and the wifi is both expensive and shitty.
  
• The keyboard is great.
  
• The trackpad is sufficient (not as good as Apple, but better than any other PC).
  
• The screen is incredible (high-res, bright IPS).
  
• It's light.
  
• It's incredibly durable.
  
• @31trum made me a great case, so it looks great on the move too.
  
  

Things I'd note:

• I added an extra battery, but I needn't have done so. The battery that comes with it is totally fine.
  
• The X250 is capped to only take 8GB RAM (as all current generation of laptops are - it's a limit of this generation of high performance yet low power CPU). If you definitely need more then you'd need an old generation laptop and will have to accept loss of battery life in the process... the X250 is fine with 8GB RAM, the battery makes it all OK.
  
  

I'd totally recommend the X250, it's the best laptop that Lenovo have made in a very long time.

I have an X220 that I use at home (same as Velocio's) and a Dell from work. Both are similar specs, I7, loads of RAM. 12" screen on Thinkpad, 14" on Dell.

Even though it's smaller, the Thinkpad is the nicer laptop to use. Keyboard is better, screen is way better (the IPS screen is really sharp and bright and worth upgrading to if it's a full-time machine). It copes fine in a docking station running two monitors at 1920x1080.

Main sacrifice is the battery life isn't great. I suspect that is due to it being an older processor. I'd also agree it's not the prettiest.