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the preference of older thinkpads is strong and common enough that there is even a cottage industry of custom motherboards with newer components made to fit old
by 5- 5y ago
the preference of older thinkpads is strong and common enough that there is even a cottage industry of custom motherboards with newer components made to fit older chassis, see e.g.
https://www.xyte.ch/mods/x210-x2100/ https://www.xyte.ch/mods/x210-x2100/
it looks like framework managed to do a fine macbook clone; what would it take them (or someone else) to clone thinkpad next?
- spaniard89277 5y agoI hope so. I think there's plenty of people waiting for that, including me. A modern x220? Good keyboard, trackpoint, decent screen with good outdoors brightness, backlit keyboard, and good linux compatibility? I'm just dreaming, I know.