Hi Florian,
the maintainability of the x2?? Thinkpads
dropped from great to good(ish) starting
with the x230. With the recent ones you
have to remove the bottom half of the case
to access anything but the rear battery*,
see [0].
But at least the x250 and the x260 have
dedicated buttons for the trackpoint again.
With the x260 support for a 16gb RAM stick (now DDR4) in the single slot is
now official
but it's not clear if you can have both a 2.5"
(7mm thick) drive and a m.2/NVMe SSD.
The option of having an m.2/_SATA_ SSD sure
is gone from what I've found.
You may also want to look at the slightly
bigger t440 (14") which can have both a 2.5"
and a m.2 drive and also (officially) supports
32gb of RAM.
HTH, Florian
PS: Yes, I've been looking at the new
Thinkpads a lot lately, but I rarely carry
mine around so 14" isn't a problem - and
also want lots of RAM for ZFS & bhyve ;)
*) The optional integrated front battery still is a "Field Replaceable" Unit,
just not as easy to swap as the rear one ;)
[0]
http://www.laptopmain.com/how-to-disassemble-lenovo-thinkpad-x260-to-upgrade-
ssd-and-ram/
Am 26. Februar 2017 09:19:32 MEZ schrieb Florian Obser <flor...@openbsd.org>:
> I need some help since I'm terrible with hardware...
>
> So my x201 main hacking laptop is getting old and benno@ is always
> mocking me for the amount of gaffer and stickers that are holding it
> together.
>
> Long story short, I'm in the market for a new thinkpad.
> Yes it has to be a thinkpad. I require the pointing stick and 3
> physical mouse buttons.
>
> On the x201 I like the ease of changing the HDD and battery. I would
> prefer if that was the case with the new one.
>
> So what's the done thing here? I'm not a hardware hacker, so I want a
> kinda fully supported one. That means accelerated X and working wifi
> (this is probably not an issue with stsp@'s hard work). Also I'm happy
> with the size of the x201, I don't want to lug a brick around, so that
> means an x series laptop. As a first approximation assume that money
> is
> not an issue.
>
> Thanks,
> Florian
