[masa331]

I have a T430s which was handed down to me by my boss 10 years ago. It has i5 from that time, 8Gb RAM. I'm still doing web app development on it same as 10 years ago and i don't feel any need to change it. I'm actually afraid there is no better laptop i could change it for when mine dies. Also i can't imagine no better keyboard :(

[halfcat]

> ”T430…no better keyboard”

This is so true. I wish MacBook didn’t have such shallow keyboards or I’d be all in. Maybe it’s improved recently but at one point it was like typing on a table. Always loved the travel of the ThinkPad keyboards.

[ahartmetz]

ThinkPad keyboards also got worse (flatter) every couple of generations, sadly. My laptop with the best keyboard is an R50e from 2004. The keyboards are still nice compared to most current ones, but...

[wiredfool]

The T420 keyboard is far better than the chicklet T430s. It’s a proper mechanical keyboard.

I’ve got both, have used both for webdev work, but compared to a modern laptop, the screens suck, the video is underpowered for 4k monitors, and the ssd interface is slow, and the trackpads are awful. On the bright side, trackpoints. (But I’m using a M13 w/ trackpoint so…. ) They’re also heavy and battery life is almost long enough to work the whole way on my bus commute, one way.

[nathanasmith]

I have a T420 I've been using for years. Upgraded to 16GB of RAM, SSD, swapped the dual core i5 for a 4 core/8 thread i7 (yes, the CPU is in a socket!), and swapped the 1600x900 crappy display for a newer 1080p panel that looks much better. I absolutely love this laptop and am not looking forward to the day when it's too old for the modern web.

[bikenaga]

My t420 has an i5-2520M. Do you remember what model i7 you swapped for your i5?

[vinc]

I have a T440p with 16 GB of RAM and a T480 with 40 GB of RAM (that can be extended again to 64 GB) and I'm also pretty happy with both and worried about the future of computing. I might stockpile a few of them!

[busymom0]

Why the 40 GB of ram?

[vinc]

I upgraded from 8 GB to 8+32 GB and will upgrade to 32+32 GB when the need arise but so far I can do web dev with that (16 GB is definitely not enough anymore sadly).

[a2800276]

Same, T460 and a T480 I think. Updated to an SSD and maxed out RAM. My only quibble is max 1980x??? Screen resolution. ThinkPad are so cheap when they come back from their leasing contract, not sure why not more people are excited about them.

Even if you don't use Linux, they typically come with a Windows Pro license built in.

[Spawnzer]

You can upgrade the screen too, at least on the t480

For around 100$ and some manual work you can upgrade to 2k resolution with say a B140QAN02.0 screen or heck even 4k if you dont mind spending twice the laptop's worth on that

Absolutely love that laptop, tricked out mine with 64gb of ram (absolutely overkill but hey I could) and a X1E glass trackpad and it's been my main dev laptop for the last 5-6 years

A 6e wifi upgrade is somewhere on the roadmap as well for me