>>12549youre in for a bunch of proprietary bullshit, overpriced potato hardware, a plastic chassis, required proprietary blobs in your coreboot rom, intel ME nonsense, shit randomly not working (e.g. Fn keys on the keyboard, volume keys, backlight, fingerprint reader, etc), and a bunch of wasted money+time
just get an X200 and libreboot it, you only have to remove 8 or so screws, the keyboard, and the palm rest to get to the bios chip
rather than the entire fucking motherboard like on pretty much every other thinkpad model
also, the X200 runs 100% blob free, just like the T400, T500, and W500.
then there are all the sub models like X200s, X200t, T400s, etc…, but most of them are either harder to libreboot than taking out the motherboard due to their WSON8 chips, or just as hard to libreboot as a T400 (taking out the whole motherboard, which is annoying)
libreboot.org has all the details about it, go and read chud.
if you just want something cheap you can flash internally theres a dell latitude supported by libreboot too, it runs blob free, is similar to the X200/T400 in terms of hardware, and looks like a high quality machine, but costs a lot less due to lower demand (for now)
the good thing is that you can flash it internally, you dont even have to open it up and get to the bios chip, and dont have to spend 5$ on a ch341a or whatever else you prefer
>he has to replace his shitty keyboard with a ""classic"" keyboard newer than anything im using dailykek, modern thinkpads are pathetic.