It's really sad that Lenovo has driven the design into the ground. I have a X201 running NixOS, that I still use from time to time, and I pulled it out recently to show it to friends. Physically speaking it's a <i>revelation</i>.<p>Three USB ports? Check. Because even today, one port permanently has a YubiKey Nano, one port permanently has a Logitech Unifying nano receiver, and I'll probably be charging my phone out of the third at some point and I'd rather not lose either of the two nano dongles because I had to temporarily unplug them and misplaced them in the process.<p>Mobile radio? Check. Because who likes to fiddle around with pairing their phone to their laptop when they're on the train?<p>Drainage ports if you have a minor spill? Check.<p>Drainage ports in the dock, which match up with the drainage ports on the laptop itself? Check<p>Dock allows you to charge an extra battery while the laptop itself is charging? Check.<p>ThinkLight in the screen to illuminate the keyboard without requiring you to bump up the brightness on the screen and take a bigger hit to battery life? Check.<p>Mechanical latch on the right side, where your hand is naturally located, allowing you to push the screen up with your right hand on the right side of the machine, and push down on the bottom half with your left hand on the left hand side of the machine? Check.<p>Six-key home/end/insert/delete/pgup/pgdwn cluster that mirrors that on a desktop keyboard? Check.<p>Dedicated page back and page forward buttons, baked into the arrow key nav cluster, so that you don't need a two-key combo to go back and forward? Check.<p>TrackPoint lets you mouse without removing hands from the home row? Check.<p>LED status indicators for disk and network usage? Check.<p>Physical WiFi switch? Check.<p>10/10 repairability? Check.<p>All Lenovo needed to do was to refresh the processor etc. every year, maybe introduce new ports as they came out, and not screw around with a formula that didn't need to be changed. Sigh.