I've been hanging around on an X201t for almost a decade now, but finally upgraded to an X270 last October. Its the last X series machine they sold with non-sol

I've been hanging around on an X201t for almost a decade now, but finally upgraded to an X270 last October. Its the last X series machine they sold with non-soldered RAM. So far things have been pretty good, Fedora works almost perfectly out of the box, but there is a nasty issue where the third party 65Wh battery I have causes the laptops embedded controller to scream that the CPU is overheating. I've had to write a script to squelch that to stop the thing from throttling down to 400mhz all the time. I've had the thing in pieces, keyboard, trackpad, palmrest, lcd and RAM have all been replaced and the build quality really pales compared to the older machines, there is no magnesium midframe here, its plastic everywhere. But at least I can get a solid 10 hours work out of the battery, and decent quality IPS panels are widely available. I'm not sure what to do once thing thing reaches the end of its life, all the replacement models are going to have every component soldered down, the batteries are all internal and not hot-swappable. Grim, I had might as well buy a Macbook.