Thanks for your detailed answer. I agree with all your points - and itās the sum of these thatās swayed my choice this time. And yes, I just have to let Lenovo let me down one more time (they have in the past) and Iāll be back!
For clarity, on the use of Fn for Home and End keys, I use them in a sequence already and depressing another key is impractical. Iāve attached a list of threads by other people whoād like to see these dedicated keys too.
The Up and Down arrow keys are smaller than the Left and Right keys. On TPs, they are similarly sized and larger - easily depressible by my fingers anyway. Some of the threads Iāve linked to below also talk about that.
I witnessed the USB and keyboard woes myself, and there are too many threads here reporting on that too. A random example is this one. Iām gathering a pattern here which is if the FW laptop is taken out and about town, these things happen. If itās left on a desk, then itās fairly stable.
The 1200px vertical was an alternate example where scaling wouldnāt have to be used. The reason why such a large resolution (1920px vertical) in the new FW13 screen made certain Linux users happy was that a flat 2x zoom could be applied. And I donāt necessarily care about the aspect ratio, but do care about being able to read and still have sufficient real estate (pixels) to do all my work. The FW16 has it well balanced though!
My use of an Ethernet port is that I do deal with a lot of networking equipment and sometimes need dual routes out of the machine (one going to management of the router, for example.) Again, I can easily live without a fully flush port but itās an interesting observation to make that even FW16 couldnāt squeeze one in.