While I have been using MacBooks as my personal and work computers for the majority of the past 10 years, I used to work exclusively on Thinkpads, and used two generations of them as my personal computers. Both of them still work and I expect them to keep working thanks to their almost unlimited repairability. While I still prefer macOS over any other operating system, I think young people with lots of spare time on their hands could benefit a lot from spending a few years working on Linux, to pick up command-line skills and general computing awareness that is useful on any platform.

You’re being downvoted but this is probably more true than most people here want to admit. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a Thinkpadhead myself - I have “a few.” But time and again my 11 year old’s iPad “just works” while I’m hacking on my Linux and the rest of my family comes to me with various Windows problems.

As the extended family’s bonafide IT admin, I looooong for the day when business apps are so effective on iOS that I can retire everyone’s W10 machine!

I dunno. I love the iPad, but my wife still works on her 2009 Thinkpad T400s 8+ hours a day.

I keep trying to buy her a new one but she doesn’t want it, it still works fine.

Thinkpads can really last these days.

I love my Thinkpads. And only one of them is new (I bought the AMD version and I love it). I should have clarified that I was speaking more about the non-tech's perspective on something that "just works" versus something that needs regular tweaking, restarts, updates that halt all other operations for some time, and all the other joys of living with a Microsoft OS that we've learned to live with.

ThinkPads are the one thing that would survive. Our 2010 iPad still works (barely), but no longer receives updates. My 2006, 2008 ThinkPads of course still receive updates and are obviously much more productive.