A lot of the old Thinkpads were great in the context of their time. But I actually had to look for the date on this article. It’s hard to take an argument seriously that this laptop is actually the laptop of choice today for the vast majority of use cases. (I still have an x270 at home I think with Linux loaded but I rarely use it.)

It also has a full size display port.

The primary use case for that VGA port was projectors installed in conference rooms. At its time in many cases the only thing you got was some VGA cable.

Yeah the 2010 Macbook Pro is clearly superior in every regard. It had 32 more pixels heightwise, so that's at least 2 lines more code on your screen too.

There is the Nitrocaster mod for that.