Lenovo ThinkPad X41

My X41 from 2005 has the same trackpad and “trackpoint” and still runs Debian Bookworm just fine.

I still have my 2005 ThinkPad X41 which has both a TrackPoint and a ThinkLight. The laptop has a dead battery, but works as good as new when plugged in.

It's been a gradual shift, with a few obvious changes along the way. Among a few: The keyboard switch from the old 7-row (whose pinnacle was at the x220/T420 era with double-height esc and del) to the new 6-row (with later ever decreasing key travel) to the current x9 (which is basically just a yoga keyboard with no trackpoint, no key grouping, and the loss of pgup/pgdn). Things like the modular battery options vanished. The case got flimsier over time with e.g. the magnesium rollcage first vanishing from the display, then from the base. (And no - from enterprise experience - the carbon fiber composite isn't generally "as good or better", esp. for failure modes like punctual force on the display. Or...grabbing the laptop by the display and using it to fan your BBQ, which doesn't faze my old X41 :) ).

My old Thinkpad X41 didn't have an optical drive ten years ago, back in 2005, and, unlike a netbook, was very much a fully-functional laptop computer.

> The OS is optimized for firewall and security. Not for desktop or anything like that. It lacks both hardware and software in almost every respect for anything more. I'm doing web development for the last 4 years and programming for almost 2. My desktop and laptop have only OpenBSD as an OS. What do I miss?.. apart from some more recent games (which is the reason I have a console), nothing[0]. ;) As for hardware problems? Well, if you want to run some new (for you) OS without doing some homework (will it run? what problems are unresolved for X hardware? what hardware do I already own? will it cause problems?) you're out of luck even with Linux in some cases. Hell, even my x41 single core laptop can play 1080p video files. [0]: http://openports.se/ [edit]: also, upgrade process => ~3-7mins (depending on hardware). Can't beat that. :)

Thinkpad X41 running OpenBSD, will be replaced by an X60-something eventually. Acer Aspire One running (mostly) Debian and Windows 7, dual-booted. I found it cheap on craigslist, and it's light enough that I don't have second thoughts bringing it while biking about. I still prefer my thinkpad, but it's surprisingly adequate. amd64/OpenBSD desktop, two Acer 24inch monitors, Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 (Dvorak), Kensington "Expert Mouse" trackball (the best left-handed trackball I've found, by far). Another old, cheap, cobbled together computer running OpenBSD as a firewall / router / server. A Haworth Zody chair and a fantastic wrap-around desk my father-in-law built. Software: Emacs, Lua, dwm, dmenu, tmux, git, runit, w3m, mpd, nethack, xwrits, the usual Unix toolchain, etc.