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I have, over a few decades now, treated my computers like an artist would treat their paper notebook, and have therefore every laptop/portable in my personal collection as reference. Well, almost, I was lucky to have had a GRIDpad back in the day, and I still haven't got around to finding a Dauphin DTR-1, but .. yeah .. the point is, my Thinkpads are still freakishly reliable, great computers, upon which to hack.

Another thing, more 'personal' computing experience .. Prior to his 'upgrade' to a gaming laptop, I had the eldest of my kids on an ol' Thinkpad or two, Linux of course, and not only did they gain much great understanding of things before encountering the consumer zone, their siblings act as force understanding multipliers.

I am often much amused at their insight into why their friends Windows bollocks needs to be blown away &etc. .. although they do somehow seem to have managed to maintain their own Windows (gaming) systems well. They at least knew what Linux was before that became a thing in their lives.

I attribute that fact to the Thinkpad being really great to hack on, and solid enough to give to an 8 year old and expect to have it sort of still work for a while, and in our case, a few early hacker minds were well serviced by its dependability ...