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ThinkPad cult made sense when it was IBM and not Lenovo. I miss the trackpoint.

Less than a year ago, I would've been an actual ThinkPad shill who would've recommended those ugly coffins to everyone, especially the ancient ones. Now I am an Apple shill so I say that all modern sub-$1k laptops are trash comparing to a basic iPad with a 3rd-party keyboard and mouse. They all have terrible software (W*ndows 10, or even worse, 11 were probably made to torture people in the first place, whereas the L*nux or BSD are out of question because budget laptops have terrible driver situations and the battery life is going to render those laptops useless anyway), terrible hardware (underperformative castrated versions of basic previous gen i3s that need fans for everything harder than one browser tab because x86 was always terrible as a mobile solution plus the inefficient amount of RAM that is going to be consumed by the W*ndiws/user-friendly L*nux almost completely, barely providing enough for one Electron app plus an excuse of a GPU that will choke on itself from Minecraft plus a webcam salvaged from a 2008 Nokia mobile phone) which renders them useless for any current-gen workflow in less than 3 years even if it's just some Word + Teams white collar paperwork. And if there are exceptions to that (like some ThinkPads or Dells), those are bad at something else like screen(most of them are still 1080p and can barely do sRGB) or portability(having to weight enough to be a good dumbbell alternative because the terrible hardware needs to be chilled to not throttle all the time) or build quality (looking at you, Lenovo, with your plastic self-deteriorating budget ThinkPads where you cannot even replace a trackpad that is faulty by design without replacing a keyboard as well). Maybe there is a global conspiracy in which all of the budget laptop vendors are doing anything to destroy its customers mental health by the terrible work experience, I just don't know at this point.

Same with android users buying a phone for $200 then $800 worth of accessories to be able to use it