ThinkPad T440p

This shift for Lenovo (and many other companies) came around 2013 or so. That seemed to be around when Intel started to heavily discourage laptop manfactureres from making medium performance laptops with upgradable M series CPUs in favour of thin and light laptops with Intel's U series ultrabook CPU

I disagree. I think modern ThinkPads are also great. This community is a niche. We love the ThinkPad as not just a product, but also the heritage that it represents. For me, I got started on ThinkPads when my dad got an T61 in 2006. Although he doesn't have it anymore, that was my literal introducti

The T440p being the last great ThinkPad? I dunno. The moment that Lenovo started using that shitty island-style keycaps, things started going down hill. By that metric alone, the T420 was the last great ThinkPad. The only things for me that it'd be missing to be perfect, would be USB-C charging. But

Hinge design? Who cares if it's good? - I do The overbuilt robust hinge has always been a defining characteristic of the T series. The hinge could easily be a weak point or failure point on a notebook. The T series answer was just a beefy overkill design. The T series historically was the "built lik