Thinkpad troll is a Chinabro trying to sell a grossly overpriced product to white ghosts. (Thinkpads are not bad laptops, except that you can get for half of the price the same thing from another firm.)
Like what?
I agree that ThinkPads are expensive, but I haven't found any other machines that have amazing keyboards, great build quality and uncompromising specs, all in a 14-inch form factor.
I have a surface laptop 2 and it is great. You can't go wrong surface products in general - and now that the surface laptops 3 has usb c - the only downside is the price (which is actually a major downside, but that is up to you).
However, they now sell the xps 13 in a "developers" edition so you might want to check that out instead. This will probably be my next laptop.
I am fairly happy with my 15" Surface Laptop 3 (having previously been a Macbook Pro user). Build quality and general user experience is good. The screen has a taller aspect ratio, which is a bit better for work. It;s lighter than my Macbook was, and was also about 20% cheaper.
I would say that Windows definitely feels a bit clunky after my MBP. Note that the MBP is the only Mac I ever owned. I have always used Windows on my desktops and been happy. But there's something about OSX that seems to work especially well with a laptop.
Also, the performance to price ratio on the Surface is definitely poor. It's not like it's slow, but it doesn't feel quite as snappy as the Macbook did when new.