= ThinkPad
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This is <Ciro Santilli>'s favorite laptop brand. He's been on it since the early 2010's after he saw his <Ciro Santilli's wife>[then-girlfriend-later-wife] using it.
Ciro doesn't know how to explain it, but ThinkPads just feel... right. The screen, the keyboard, the lid, the touchpad are all exactly what Ciro likes.
The only problem with ThinkPad is that it is owned by <Lenovo> which is a <Ciro Santilli's campaign for freedom of speech in China>[Chinese company], and that makes Ciro feel bad. But he likes it too much to quit... what to do?
Ciro is also reassured to see that in every enterprise he's been so far as of 2020, ThinkPads are very dominant. And the same when you see internal videos from other big tech enterprises, all those nerds are running... Ubuntu on ThinkPads! And the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ISS-38_EVA-1_Laptops.jpg[ISS].
Those nerds like their ThinkPads so much, that Ciro has seen some acquaintances with crazy old ThinkPad machines, missing keyboard buttons or the like. They just like their machines that much.
ThinkPads are are also designed for repairability, and it is easy to buy replacement parts, and there are OEM part replacement video tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vseFzFFz8lY No visible <planned obsolescence> here! With the caveat that the official online part stores can be <shit> as mentioned at <Lenovo>{full}.
Further more, in 2020 Lenovo is announced full certification for <Ubuntu> https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2020/06/03/lenovos-massive-ubuntu-and-red-hat-announcement-levels-up-linux-in-2020/\#28a8fd397ae0 which \i[fantastic] news!
The only thing Ciro never understood is the trackpoint: https://superuser.com/questions/225059/how-to-get-used-of-trackpoint-on-a-thinkpad Why would you use that with such an amazing touchpad? And <vimium>.