Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by Lammy 2125 days ago
The keyboard is the appeal; the T420 was the last model with the classic "7-row" keyboard design. The T430 and later have Macbook-style chiclet keys like everything else these days. It's one of the best portable SSH clients you can ask for, so the CPU power of the ThinkPad itself isn't that relevant.

Some people go the opposite route of modding the old keyboard onto newer ThinkPads: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Install_Classic_Keyboard_on_xx...