Re:The ThinkPad T420 – the last laptop you'll ever need
by faeriechangling on Monday February 06, 2023 @12:17AM
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When the first Lenovo Thinkpads came out people trashed the new keyboard in particular as being a weight cutting compromise which was inferior to a true IBM keyboard. Although people seem to have forgotten this scandal and now wax poetic over the superior T420 7 row keyboard.
Nowadays? It's a computers which has the sole strength of having a good keyboard while simultaneously having a 1600x900 230 nit screen that can't render text all that well, it's bulky and heavy, it runs out of battery fast, it can't do large swathes of modern internet activities (like high-resolution video), and it burns through battery cells relatively fast compared to a new laptop so it's not even as low maintenance as it's chocked up to be.
I've noticed quite a few people who are taken with this idea of late aughts/early 10's tech in general, not only these thinkpads but they buy old smartphones with replaceable batteries and desktop computers.
Nowadays? It's a computers which has the sole strength of having a good keyboard while simultaneously having a 1600x900 230 nit screen that can't render text all that well, it's bulky and heavy, it runs out of battery fast, it can't do large swathes of modern internet activities (like high-resolution video), and it burns through battery cells relatively fast compared to a new laptop so it's not even as low maintenance as it's chocked up to be.
I've noticed quite a few people who are taken with this idea of late aughts/early 10's tech in general, not only these thinkpads but they buy old smartphones with replaceable batteries and desktop computers.