Yes, I would buy one. But it's 6+ months and Lenovo hasn't started producing them.

In 2013 Lenovo annouced the T430, were they destroyed their ThinkPad brand with this aweful keyboard and touchpad, etc: http://blog.lenovo.com/en/blog/thinkpad-t431s-laptop-new-des...

And David Hill (the autor of the ThinkPad Time Machine? 2015 blob post) is mentioned in the 2013 article.