The Laptop That Won’t Die

My $200, 12-year-old Thinkpad has outlasted two high-end Macbooks

Clive Thompson

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A laptop sitting on a wooden table, with a large green electronic chipboard to its right. The laptop is open and displays a Medium essay written by the author of this blog post. The laptop is thick and chunky
My 2011 T420 Thinkpad

That laptop above?

It’s the most indestructible, nonstop, won’t-die computer I’ve ever owned.

Full. Stop.

I’m going to write a whole damn post about it but the tl;dr is …

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Clive Thompson

I write 2X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide. Writer at NYT mag/Wired; author, “Coders”. @clive@saturation.social clive@clivethompson.net