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Re:Open Source Thinkpad T420 Battery Design by jart on Sunday August 30, 2020 @02:39AM (#24321793)
This. I bought my ThinkPad T420 around 2011 and have loved it ever since. In many ways, I could feel at the time that it signified both the pinnacle and end of an era. While the keyboard doesn't feel as nice as a model f, or beam spring, there's something to be said about using the red dot as a mouse, the aesthetics, the willingness to have every i/o interface imaginable, e.g. ethernet, wimax, wifi, serial, etc. I hope my T420 lasts forever, since the new ThinkPads come across as a cringeworthy attempt to be Apple, and I never settle for lesser inauthentic forms of things.
Re:Open Source Thinkpad T420 Battery Design by puzzlingcaptcha on Sunday August 30, 2020 @08:12AM (#24322807)
>every i/o interface imaginable, e.g. ethernet, wimax, wifi, serial

Wasn't the last Thinkpad with a serial port the T30? I'm pretty sure T420 doesn't have one.