So my laptop broke and I am looking for a new laptop. And I am going for lenovo thinkpads because I seen a lot of linux communities recommend older and used lenovo thinkpads, but I wonder if the new thinkpads are worth getting or I should stick with getting a used thinkpad.
The T60 is great for being 4:3 and you can libreboot it without specialized hardware, just software!
The 32-bit architecture is just the funky little cherry on top.
Only problem is the wifi. Some of them come with an Intel that needs iwlwifi.
libreboot has no wifi whitelist, so you can easily get yourself an ath9k compatible card for pennies and have it working. And since flashing it is so easy on the T60 and X60, it’s stupid not to have it.
The best resource for finding compatible models I’ve found is OpenBSD’s athn(4) manpage as compared to Linux wireless wiki entry for ath9k. It has a column for what kind of interface a chipset uses, making it quicker to filter out what you don’t want.
Hell and if you don’t care for libreboot or an internal wifi card you can always get yourself a USB one, you can check out h-node.org or this github guide: https://github.com/morrownr/USB-WiFi