Don't take it from me. Take it from Drew here:
https://drewdevault.com/rants/2020/02/18/Fucking-laptops.htm...
As he says: > The best laptop ever made is the ThinkPad X200
In these sad deprived days, coding means typing text. For text, you need a good keyboard.
And Lenovo made the best keyboards in laptops, later than anyone else... until they went chiclet. As chiclets go, Lenovo's are good, but they're still chiclets and chiclet keyboards are inferior.
Trackpads are large, hard to be very accurate, and you accidentally hit them while typing. All you need is a Trackpoint.
And if you're some kind of current-kit fetishist, or some poor sucker working in Javascript or worse still some Electron abomination, then you can stick a new motherboard in it for your hideous bloatware to get the CPU cycles it needs to pointlessly burn.
https://hackaday.com/2018/03/12/new-guts-make-old-thinkpads-...