To be fair, a MacBook pro is the highest end premium product in this space being used with official software for a well-defined industry use case.
That's hardly the same thing as a bunch of developers installing an aftermarket OS on a midrange laptop. And even then, "you have to install a BIOS update" is just shorthand for Lenovo fixed the problem, right?
I think this is a good point against calling a computer professional device in 2019 - or was "business" meant from a pure quality/design /luxury perspective?
I know we aren't talking about servers but not-self-serviceable hardware with strict limits is what I usually associate with mid-range, not professional users, not even prosumers.
That laptop costs around 2000€ though. The price itself is enterprise-level indeed.
Not much different from having to install brew to get usably recent versions of basic developer utilities on macOS or installing WSL on Windows. Atleast with the Thinkpad I still have my arm and leg to get it done and I love the keyboard.
That's hardly the same thing as a bunch of developers installing an aftermarket OS on a midrange laptop. And even then, "you have to install a BIOS update" is just shorthand for Lenovo fixed the problem, right?