John Beef
Opaque
Part of my job is purchasing computers for my department and I would agree with this. Lenovos have a lot of problems. I had to do a full motherboard replacement on one user's Lenovo laptop that she bought for her work here herself (not sure why she did this) and only got a 1 year warranty. The damn thing basically quit after one year and about two months.It really depends what you go for. Apple right now has, hands down, the best build quality of any laptop on the market. If I were looking at Dell, I would go with a business line laptop to get a 3 year onsite warranty. My company loves lenovo for some reason, but we had TONS of issues with the T540 series laptops and X1 Carbons that I would never use Lenovo personally.
I prefer Dells for business purchases. They're just built better and have basically no problems. Maybe one or two out of every hundred we buy. Also, another cool thing about Dells for business is you can buy one port replicator and it will work with every Latitude E-series laptop they make, going back several years. With Lenovo, they seem to make a different port replicator for every model and it's almost impossible to figure out which one you need if you are trying to buy the correct one for an older model.
As for a Mac, I have a Mac laptop and support Macs at work. There are lots of things to like about Macs. I understand why they have such die-hard fanboys. They're built better. They run very well and for a really long time. But then, if you want a 27" screen to go with your Mac laptop, you get to buy one that costs $1000. If you want a 27" Dell monitor, it's more like $250. Everything Mac is a lot more expensive.