Another laptop with soldered RAM = built-in planned obsolescence.<p>More consumers need to be made aware of this and everyone should boycott such products. Especially for the price they are paying ($1000+ for this model). If we just give in without protesting about it we are just giving up our rights to repair our devices.
I know that OpenBSD is "opinionated" but I can't really accept that their opinion on bluetooth is "we don't support bluetooth", which otherwise seems essential, at least to me, for any mobile device.
I have an x1 6th gen running freebsd. I am a little disappointed with how it's been falling apart. SSD failed early last year. Lost contact with a usb c port a few months after that. LCD has a vertical gray line. Some paint started chipping off around the trackpad.<p>I will probably replace it with another X1 because I am a masochist. But I do wish it were a bit more sturdy. Other than that, I like the size and hardware support.
Waaaaay back when, I had a plan to turn my months long tweaking FreeBSD (6?) on my laptop into becoming a reseller of laptops with BSD pre-installed (this was back when Dell did not ship anything with linux on, and laptops still had some kind of margin).<p>Like most of my ideas it withered on the vine of bills and rent but every time I look at an Apple Mac there is still a twinge that says "Lenovo makes 100,000 laptops with exactly same components for huge corporate A and B, so there is room to tack on 1,000 more to keep the hardware base stable and release a run of perfectly stable machines, that just work.<p>Or ... frankly my dell refurbished laptop runs three flavours of linux quite fine thank you. maybe I just cannot go back to BSD ... which is a shame.
It's been a very long time since I owned a Thinkpad, 2001-ish. To give a time frame around this time there were companies like Circuit City was busted with the rise of Fry's Electronics. I'm unsure if Best Buy's was a thing at the time. The look of the Thinkpads are still very similar to ones today, but of course very modernized to times then.<p>I would very much appreciate who might be able to weigh in their experience who has used both a Thinkpad and a Macbook book as primary machines. It's been a while since I last purchased a pc-based laptop and would like to explore options again. Another I was interested in the past include Alienware.