• somenonewho@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • Danny M@lemmy.escapebigtech.info
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      1 year ago

      Framework is doing amazing work. Sure, their stuff isn’t cheap, but you’re basically voting with your wallet against the throwaway tech culture. It’s like saying, “Hey, we’d rather pay a bit more for gear that’s actually built to last, than for some flimsy junk that falls apart and costs a fortune to fix.”