First screen, captured 11 days ago. Open the video.

My Favourite Laptop

What HN thinks

A support group for people who refuse to let their 2015 ThinkPads die, with a few M1 owners nodding along from the back.

Old ThinkPads remain great
Many daily-drive decade-old ThinkPads (X220, T420, X250, T480) on Linux or BSD, praising keyboards, repairability and cheap parts, while lamenting modern models' shallow keys and missing mouse buttons.
M1 Macs are the modern equivalent
Apple Silicon owners say their M1 machines still feel fast years later, though others note Intel-era Macs were awful and macOS quality is slipping.
CPU gains no longer force upgrades
Commenters argue performance improvements have been marginal for everyday use, so software support, screens and batteries now drive replacement, with heavy workloads offloaded to desktops or servers.

Consensus: Most agree older well-built laptops, especially ThinkPads running Linux, remain perfectly usable for everyday work, with batteries and screens being the main weak points.

Recommended in the comments

Framework Laptop ↗ (product): Suggested as the modern repairable successor to old ThinkPads, though some dislike its MacBook-like design and limited shipping.
Fedora Linux (product): Used to revive old laptops and runs fast on 8GB machines.
Libreboot ↗ (tool): Can now be installed on 8th-gen ThinkPads like the T480.
Asahi Linux (product): Lets M1/M2 owners keep using their Macs after macOS support fades.
Moonlight (tool): Lets weak old laptops play games streamed from a powerful desktop with low latency.
TLP (tool): Mentioned as part of getting long battery runtimes on old ThinkPads.