I recently encountered an abrupt sihost.exe crash in Windows 11 Pro on a Surface Laptop 5 for Business which required a hard reboot to get Windows back up and running.

Last year, I decided to replace my aging Lenovo ThinkPad T460s. Originally, I had planned to replace it with a Lenovo ThinkPad T14s (Gen 2) but with the supply chain issues and chip shortages, I was looking at an estimated delivery timeframe of over twelve weeks to get a custom configured T14s.