ThinkPads from 2012 still beat most laptops today

There's something almost offensive about how good old ThinkPads are. The X220, T420, T430 - built when Lenovo still cared about keyboards. Actual key travel. A trackpoint. A layout that made sense.

Modern laptops give you a glass slab keyboard and soldered RAM. My T430 has swappable RAM and a hot-swap battery. In 2026.

Find one for under 80 euro at a thrift store. Slap Linux Mint on it. You're welcome.