And yet still not as serviceable/durable as older ThinkPads. They don’t even have water spouts in the keyboard/chassis like the older ones. One could dump a beverage on the keyboard on the older models and it would route through the keyboard->chassis->even the docks had water routing ports so it would just keep traveling mostly harmless through to underneath.

Nor batteries externally removable like used to be.

Not a bad step though by any means, and great to see this return to user-serviceability.

Props though, on the removable RAM. Given the need for shorter circuit paths for higher performance RAM these days, that looks a bit of clever engineering.

The former was a truth, the latter was a (poorly-placed) joke about how IRC could be noisy chaos with bots and ping floods and giant ASCII art messages. I’d take the latter any day.

Discord, the cancer that replaced IRC. Which was an earlier form of cancer, but at least more disposable.