[rdtsc]

Well because they were making darn good hardware. I had my T60 for many many years. Carbon X1 seems nice.

Now I ended up buying a cheap ASUS Chromebook for traveling, replaced drive with a large one and installed Ubuntu. But still haven't decided if I want to replace my main machine.

Was eyeing Carbon X1 models for a while, but now will have to rethink.

Besides, like some people here, I always wipe everyone out and reinstall my own distro on it (Ubuntu usually).

[Tortuga001]

The T60 was one of the very first laptops Lenovo released after it purchased the IBM PC division. I wonder if it had already been in development under IBM before the purchase.

[rdtsc]

I am pretty sure it was. Mine still has the old style IBM Thinkpad logo on the case. Documentation and driver downloads pointed to ibm.com site for a long while even after the acquisition.