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Surely this can be a business: A laptop that has the characteristics many of us value in an X220, but without violating Lenovo’s IP. My priorities are the keybo

Surely this can be a business: A laptop that has the characteristics many of us value in an X220, but without violating Lenovo’s IP. My priorities are the keyboard, reliability, legacy ports, replaceable/upgradable parts. I don’t need the latest CPU nor the highest res screen, but these would be nice, and I appreciate they are of high importance to many. I’m a non-tech software exec and can have pretty much any laptop I want, but have been exclusively on one X220 after another since they came out. They kept getting cheaper and cheaper! I’m afraid to look now. At this point, it has been so long that I don’t want to deal with the learning curve or annoyances of anything else, and would probably pay whatever it took for that privilege. At one point, my tech team talked me into a top-of-the line MacBook Pro with every option and dual boot, but I was fed up relearning every little shortcut and shuffled it along after two weeks.

Fnoord 5y ago
Isn't that pretty much what Ministry of Freedom provide [1]? Or do you specifically refer to X220, and X220 only? Why don't they provide a X220? [1] https://minifree.org/ https://minifree.org/
- Kaibeezy 5y ago
  Oh, I’d forgotten about that one! Right, those are X200 but she’s apparently got an announcement soon. Maybe X220? If so, yep, that would do it. Why I got stuck on X220? Had been upgrading regularly since X40, but stopped when they got to the last of the V8 Interceptors, know what I mean?
andrewzah 5y ago
Well, going from a thinkpad x220 -> mbp is a big change. But I found that the dell xps 13" was very easy to migrate to, and wasn't agonizingly slow for compilation like the older thinkpads. I still like my x201 and x220's, but I relegate those to less intensive tasks. I have openbsd on one that I pretty much just use for writing articles or emails, which is nice. However for travel, the older thinkpads are just so incredibly bulky compared to the xps models or the new framework laptop.
- Kaibeezy 5y ago
  I don’t really have any intensive tasks, unless you include VNC to the mothership, 80 browser tabs and all-day video calls from the hotel bar ;)
nfoz 5y ago
Not quite the same but the most comparable product I'm aware of is the Panasonic "Let's Note" line, which intend to be durable business ultraportables with lots of ports and replaceable (if not hot-swappable) batteries Though I haven't used one; they'd be difficult to acquire in the West https://panasonic.jp/cns/pc/products/fv1j/ https://panasonic.jp/cns/pc/products/fv1j/

Fnoord 5y ago

Isn't that pretty much what Ministry of Freedom provide [1]? Or do you specifically refer to X220, and X220 only? Why don't they provide a X220? [1] https://minifree.org/ https://minifree.org/

Kaibeezy 5y ago
Oh, I’d forgotten about that one! Right, those are X200 but she’s apparently got an announcement soon. Maybe X220? If so, yep, that would do it. Why I got stuck on X220? Had been upgrading regularly since X40, but stopped when they got to the last of the V8 Interceptors, know what I mean?

andrewzah 5y ago

Well, going from a thinkpad x220 -> mbp is a big change. But I found that the dell xps 13" was very easy to migrate to, and wasn't agonizingly slow for compilation like the older thinkpads. I still like my x201 and x220's, but I relegate those to less intensive tasks. I have openbsd on one that I pretty much just use for writing articles or emails, which is nice. However for travel, the older thinkpads are just so incredibly bulky compared to the xps models or the new framework laptop.

Kaibeezy 5y ago
I don’t really have any intensive tasks, unless you include VNC to the mothership, 80 browser tabs and all-day video calls from the hotel bar ;)

nfoz 5y ago

Not quite the same but the most comparable product I'm aware of is the Panasonic "Let's Note" line, which intend to be durable business ultraportables with lots of ports and replaceable (if not hot-swappable) batteries Though I haven't used one; they'd be difficult to acquire in the West https://panasonic.jp/cns/pc/products/fv1j/ https://panasonic.jp/cns/pc/products/fv1j/