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Re:Open Source Thinkpad T420 Battery Design by tomcooks on Sunday August 30, 2020 @04:21AM (#24322126)
Instead of making bad Mac Air clones a company should make 1:1 replicas of sturdy, old school, ThinkPads (t420, x230, x220, etc)

There's a market for cheap, reliable, battle tested equipment

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Re:Open Source Thinkpad T420 Battery Design by generalizations on Sunday August 30, 2020 @04:19PM (#24325596)
I wonder how much of the design of those oldschool ThinkPads is patented or otherwise protected. What's to stop some enterprising hacker from making those replicas without authorization?
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