Well because they were making darn good hardware. I had my T60 for many many years. Carbon X1 seems nice.
Now I ended up buying a cheap ASUS Chromebook for traveling, replaced drive with a large one and installed Ubuntu. But still haven't decided if I want to replace my main machine.
Was eyeing Carbon X1 models for a while, but now will have to rethink.
Besides, like some people here, I always wipe everyone out and reinstall my own distro on it (Ubuntu usually).
The T60 was one of the very first laptops Lenovo released after it purchased the IBM PC division. I wonder if it had already been in development under IBM before the purchase.
I am pretty sure it was. Mine still has the old style IBM Thinkpad logo on the case. Documentation and driver downloads pointed to ibm.com site for a long while even after the acquisition.
Now I ended up buying a cheap ASUS Chromebook for traveling, replaced drive with a large one and installed Ubuntu. But still haven't decided if I want to replace my main machine.
Was eyeing Carbon X1 models for a while, but now will have to rethink.
Besides, like some people here, I always wipe everyone out and reinstall my own distro on it (Ubuntu usually).