I’m only here to say, why the fuck would you put wrenches in this pic? Imo Should be screw drivers

I love ThinkPads especially the “good old” ones. Especially for their accessibility of parts and easy repair/upgradability.

My personal laptop has been a Thinkpad since 2013 (Thinkpad Edge E135 > Thinkpad X220 > Thinkpad x260) and at work we are also given ThinkPads (currently running a T14 gen 3).

Most ThinkPads I encountered are also sturdy built and not Gleis together or some crap like that. However I recently had an issue with my x260’s power button no longer working and to get it to work I had to replace the top bezels. Well maybe to put it more bluntly I had to get a replacemt bezel and put my Thinkpad into it since to replace the bezel I had to take out almost everything and then put it back in the reverse order. The mere fact that I managed to do it and there are officiall step by step instructions on how to (hmm) are a big upside of ThinkPads. But like others have said it used to be even better.

Well long story short: I’ve recently preordered a framework 13 amd while I honestly would have preferred a “Thinkpad black” Chassis framework just seems to have the right idea to me.

Well, yeah. They kinda have to by EU law in the future. But good to see they start the change now.

ThinkPads once were pretty easy to work on and repair, but then the whole soldering stuff to the system board and removing power bridge batteries happened.

If you look at something like a T430, it has access doors for everything on the bottom in addition to being built like a tank.

What a crazy carousel. I still use the t430, which I would call repairable - I just hope that there will be a current motherboard with appropriate CPU For it

But they aren’t repairable now because you keep setting your fucking wrenches on top of them

Don’t buy Lenovo, unless you like your Chinese spy machines