There were Thinkpads in the same class action IIRC. Just a bad design and a bad part used across their line up with some of their 2 in 1s for a while.

Yeah my wife had a refurb Vaio that was already couple years old when we picked it up, and it easily put another 5 on the board before just getting too old to daily drive. It was otherwise fine.

Considering I’ve had duds from each brand (had a Lenovo with hinges so bad they had to settle a class action over it, and I had an Asus with soldered down ram that was bad and the bios was so trash I couldn’t disable the bad ram and run of of the one swap-able slot instead,) it’s a bit of an Alien vs. Predator situation in my view. Both brands are a shadow of their peak (the classic Asus Netbooks were tanks - mine still boot to this day, and Lenovo Thinkpads until about the mid 2010s were immaculate - I have a 2012 model that still runs,) and neither of them have any reason to get better about it.