<div dir="ltr">I agree, spent most of my professional life using Thinkpads running Linux, and still using a T520 occasionally, but now my workhorse of choice is a Google PixelBook. Chrome OS is slick, fast and does most of what I want, and now Chromebooks can run Linux (and Android) apps I do all my development work on it - with 7 hours of battery life. Brilliant machines. The only major issue is that there's no USB serial port support in the Linux container so I can't flash Arduino from my Chromebook.<div><br></div><div>I have a modern Lenovo Thinkpad running WIndows 10 for when I absolutely have to (fortunately not very often) and it's not a patch on the Chromebook, and nothing like as good as the IBM ones.</div><div><br></div><div>hth</div><div>Phil</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 22 May 2020 at 08:17, Christoph Schmees <<a href="mailto:cjws@gmx.net">cjws@gmx.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Am 14.05.20 um 22:10 schrieb Marius Gedminas:<br>
> On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 06:11:34PM +0300, Marius Gedminas wrote:<br>
>> I also like my current X390, but it has some downsides: non-upgradeable<br>
>> RAM, no easily-replaceable SDD/HDD tray,<br>
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> And I forgot the biggest downside: no replaceable battery!<br>
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well, it seems that it is time for my 2¢.<br>
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Until the xx20 series (X220, T420 and 520, designed by IBM) the ThinkPads were great. The xx30 series were mere acceptable; since xx40 series (designed by Lenovo) I am through with Thinkpad.<br>
My wife still happily runs a X201 - what a fabulous machine, albeit a bit old.<br>
I for one run and carry my good old X220 (8G RAM, M.2 SSD + 1 TB HD, new WiFi) and love it (except the screen resolution only HD). Both machines run Linux-Mint.<br>
If my X220 or the X201 of my wife should pass away some day, it will be replaced most probably by a comparable machine from HP or Dell.<br>
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hth, Christoph<br>
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