This is the classic "not the question you asked" but I strongly recommend running Fedora on laptops, particularly Thinkpads. It works perfectly on every Thinkpad I've tested on (a good half dozen models at this point) with the only exception being the usual graphics stuff if you have non-integrated or Intel graphics.

There are two reasons for this - Fedora ships a far more recent kernel than most distros (the only competitor being Arch), and Redhat does a lot of work on Thinkpad support. On my T430 at home literally everything worked out of the box with zero config, all the way down to fingerprint reader and keyboard backlight.