What Lenovo notebook for Windows/Ubuntu dualboot

Hey there,
can anyone recommend a notebook for Windows/Ubuntu dualboot? I've heard that there are many problems with UEFI. I would like to use Ubuntu 12.04.2.
Best wishes and thanks in advance!

T530 has been working prett y well for me since November or so... got it with 4GB RAM & 500GB SATA HD, because that was the best price/performance package I could afford at the time. Since then got a little more OT pay and upgraded to 16GB RAM and a 256GB SSD, and moved the 500GB SATA HD to the UltraBay in lieu of the optical drive which I almost never used.
This model came with Windows 7 Professional, and I had zero problems setting it up for multi-boot. I tinkered with several different distros - Ubuntu, openSUSE, Scientific, Mint, Fedora 18... Ubuntu was one of the smoothest installs, and pretty much everything - including almost all of the function keys for sleep, lock screen, volume, brightness, etc. work 'out of the box'. Currently running Xubuntu on it for other reasons, but may go back to 'plain' Ubuntu sometime in the near future as not as many of the little things like the Fn keys work in Xubuntu as in mainstream Ubuntu.
Mine came with the oversized 9-cell battery pack, and that was the one thing that was a major complaint for me originally - the battery life under Linux (any flavor) was about half what it was in Win7; 2-3 hours vs 4-6. The WebUpd8 site has a number of articles on adding various PPAs that help out with the battery life quite a bit - highly recommended. Newer Linux kernels (since 12.04) are supposed to have better power management abilities, so I'm not sure 12.04 would be my first choice for that reason. Some of the subsequent releases have been buggy enough that shorter battery life might be the lesser of two evils. 12.10 had some issues with one of the kernel releases (wasn't just Ubuntu, fwiw... saw the same problem on Fedora 18) right before 13.04 came out that caused problems - like unresponsive black screen after GRUB - with cards that have multiple video adapters (like the T530). Installing the 'aftermarket' bumblebee drivers via PPA fixed that, while Ubuntu and the kernel team were still fumbling about. FYI, the bumblebee drivers made a big difference in the power consumption as well. Xubuntu recenly had a problem where a code error from upstream (XFCE) propagated down and caused semi-random (but very repeatable) logouts from X Windows. That one has been going on 4+ months (12.10 and 13.04) and still not fixed in the mainstream version (had to install another PPA for a 'patch' to be able to run XFCE at all. This is why I'm starting to debate about either going 'back' to the 12.04 LTS, or trying to hold things together long enough to get to 14.04 (next LTS) and staying there until EOL for the hardware...
YMMV,
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