[m_mueller]

Your recipy almost matches my dream laptop:

15'' ThinkPad, ca. 2005 era

KabyLake quad or more cores, maxed out memory

rMBP screen

All thinkpad ports in their modern incarnations (gigabit ether, USB 3.1, hdmi), add 1-2 USB-C

rMBP Touchpad before it became Forcetouch

Essentially, give me the Ford F-150 raptor of laptops. And I'm saying this as a European ;).

[qball]

Funny that you say that; there's a project out there aiming to do just that (their last effort was a modern motherboard for an X61; this new one is for the T60).

You can find it here (translated link): https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=zh-CN&tl=en&js=y&p...

[Inconel]

I'm currently using a 2013 MacBook Pro and my only interaction with the Force Touch trackpads has been in Apple stores, but what do you dislike about them?

I haven't had a chance to try them for long enough to form an opinion and I'm curious about potential annoyances if/when I upgrade to a newer model.

Personally I'd love to see the 12.9" 4:3 display from an iPad Pro in a Thinkpad retro.

[fouc]

FYI, there's a setting that controls the forcetouch click, Light/Medium/Firm. If you set it to Firm, it will feel the same as before.

[mikejmoffitt]

"Firm" doesn't feel at all like it was before.