I've seen the name, but was unaware of the functionality; I've been using the old "screen shot via print-screen key and crop" method for years.

The BSOD screen is awful, and yet at the same time it contains genuinely useful debugging information. The alternative that anyone's found is a "gibberish" free but uninformative option; Windows 8 has moved to it. I'm not sure it's any improvement.

Business and personal use have been largely converged since oh, about 1988 or 1990, when one stopped having to choose between color graphics and relatively decent text/screen resolution. MS attempted for years to separate Office from Works before giving up and first bundling Word as part of Works and more recently just selling the Home and Student edition

Gaming is certainly another matter.

I played with it a bit on free trials, but never extensively; I was pretty active in the NYC local BBS scene in the mid-late 1980s, though.

The models I'd expect to see the most interest in in law practice would be the X1 Carbon, T440s, T440p, T430s, T430. I don't think any of those CAN be equipped anywhere near $3000, and with some decent sense about how they're equipped it's pretty hard to go much over $1600.

Most of that increase is Lenovo's habit of overcharging, badly, for SSDs and memory; a base model T430s (what my employer buys as a default model for pretty much everyone who doesn't write code) is $817, and under $300 extra gets you maxed out memory and a quarter-terabyte SSD if you're willing to install yourself. Even with a few bits and pieces which are add-on prices (webcam, for example) you're unlikely to break $1300.

It's gotten a lot better over the years; not good, but far from worthless.