[ggreer]

I don't mind the worn look, though I often clean the fingerprint oils off the keyboard. A blog post titled Aged to Perfection describes my view[1]:

> The truth is that consumer products are ‘new’ for a very brief moment when they are first removed from the packaging, but spend the great majority of their useful lives as ‘used’ products in the process of decay. Many welcome the breaking-in of products like a leather wallet or a pair of jeans as this wear can be aesthetically-pleasing. The Japanese have a term for this, “Wabi-sabi”.[2] Wabi-sabi can be used to describe the aesthetically pleasing wear of an object as it decays over time.

I still use my X62 as my primary development machine. I like it so much that I've ordered an X210 from the same manufacturer.

1. https://designmind.frogdesign.com/2011/09/aged-perfection/

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi

[_emacsomancer_]

I've looked longingly at 51nb's X210. It probably could be put into an X200 chassis rather than an X201, I imagine, which would be ideal (I wouldn't really want the touchpad). I can't justify the cost right now though, sadly.

[thomasko]

You can easily put a palm rest without touchpad in the X201, those parts are pretty cheap on ebay.

[_emacsomancer_]

Is the presence/absence touchpad the only significance difference in the chassis between the X200 and X201? (I've never owned an X201.)