I love Thinkpads and bought some for myself. I also pushed for them to be adopted across my company's entire engineering department.

We're sending them back for a refund and buying XPS Developer Editions for everyone instead, even though it's IMO a much inferior product with no ports and a crappy keyboard.

The Realtek wifi cards they're putting into the new Thinkpads are just a damn shame. Even with 3rd party kernel modules that you compile yourself, we couldn't get it to work reliably, and while I'm OK with opening up a laptop with 37 tabs and replacing the wifi card, we can't ask that of everyone.

For our team the laptop needs to "just work" and the new Thinkpads don't, which is deeply disappointing to me.