Yeah thinkpads are not fancy but pretty solid choices Now it's chinese company ... It's hard to get all the ckeckboxes checked Starlabs laptops are pretty sexy https://starlabs.systems/ Especially the mkIII for less than 500 bucks https://starlabs.systems/pages/lite-mk-iii The mkIV being the tougher version for a little more than 800 https://starlabs.systems/pages/labtop-mk-iv But customization is limited (no azery/qwertz keyboards, no "enhanced"/full keyboards)