man are articles like this tedious, even scrolling by them on the front page of HN annoys me and reminds me how irritating and loudmouthed so many people in this industry are.
But you don't disagree with the central claim that the X200 is the best laptop in the world, just that the idea invokes a peevish internal emotional state?
Imagine there is some company making laptops and half the power nerds out there would rather run something 10+ years old. And then, further imagine that you could capture this entire market, if you simply slapped some ports, a good keyboard, and a Trackpoint onto your laptop line, but instead you hire people to moan and bellyache when Thinkpads come up. Go look at the Thinkpad Reddit - literally half the comments are people recommending some new piece of shit craptop with a chicklet keyboard. That's not organic.