that's what Louis Rossmann has been saying all along

Classic IBM Thinkpad was pretty good. I replaced keypads twice on an X30. I did heaps of inside-the-box fiddling. They never complained.

I think the carved aluminium unibody thing was the death knell. Hard to be fashionably sleek and also easy to mod/fix/replace. But then they made hard a feature.

Stuck down memory and SSD is just evil nickel-and-dime stuff.