I’m not a big owner of things, but the best laptop I’ve ever owned is a roughed-up 2015 Thinkpad X250.

For the flex, here it is running a GUI shell sat on top of the microkernel I’m currently working on (blog post about this incoming… eventually).

Here’s a list of things that I think make it brilliant. I don’t want to pretend that any of these things are uniquely exemplary: far from it. It is the confluence of them, and not any one in particular, that makes me love using it.

It’s pretty tiny. Its form-factor fits snuggly into the footprint of an A4 piece of paper, so it sits alongside books and folders when placed in a small rucksack without risking damage.