Ok so on Monday two weeks ago my Macbook air M1 display just died for literally no reason. Those people who repair it said I should just sell it on ebay with broken screen cause fixing it costs a lot, they basically told me only apple can fix it. Apple's price = 500 Euro...

I'm a university student. I don't have 500 Euro.

I've been thinking for a while to get a thinkpad, cause I love being flexible between Windows, Linux and MacOs.

So I went to look for a thinkpad I can afford. Ebay over here wasn't really helpfull tho cause I needed a working thinkpad with all parts including the charger and ebay well yeah no.

So I bought a refurbised T450 on amazon. It was on sale and within a day the stock went form 7 to 2. So I just bought it. "It's from 2015, it can't be that bad after all. My old macbook from 2014 is working fine after all, just can't do updates anymore" - or something like that went through my head.

So the thinkpad arrived the next day and I was able to instal everything on Windows 10. I currently need windows 10 due to my statistics class. The exam will be on windows, so yeah.

Well here my honest thoughts. It is slow and sometimes takes a bit to load programs, but as far as my experience goes, that's just windows.

Running programs like R and pycharm works just fine. I also love the keyboard, it just feels better than the macbook keyboards.

The only thing I hate is the trackpad. It sucks. My 2014 macbooks trackback is way better and it's a year older than the thinkpad.

I do love that I can't play games or anything distracting on it. That way I really do my work on that thing instead of scrolling on reddit for example, cause the trackpad makes want to avoid scrolling.

I also love that I can add a screen, 3 usb devices AND still charge it. A thing the macbook m1 and many modern laptops can't do...

Also being able to upgrade and replace broken parts with prices I can afford and are not half the price of what I paid when I bought it new. It's cheaper and it gives me a safe feeling.

The screen is bad, but honestly I love how I don't see my face everytime it's dark or the screen shows something black/dark.

Also it's not an american product, which to me is extra points for multiple reasons, but I will not go further in detail with that, cause this ain't about politics.

For studying it is great, I can add a monitor without problems, don't get distracted by any fance games or anything pre installed, except for the news thingy that came with windows 10. That thing sometimes writes something in the right corner and makes me think "yo wtf did I just read". But I think that's more of a windows thing and not a thinkpad thing.

Also love that if water ends up on the keyboard, it will go right though and out on the other side.

So all in all I give this thinkpad a solid 8/10.

Once I have money again, I'll look for a second thinkpad so I can use Linux on it. I do feel like the T450 will be my companion for a long time tho.