Fundamental aspects of the ThinkPad line have been scrapped, redesigned, and tweaked over the last 10 years. Have these changes improved the lineup of laptops, or have these modifications turned the modern ThinkPads into Ideapads?

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Update (12/19/2019): Added additional context clarification to the introduction.

It’s been a decade since Lenovo introduced the ThinkPad T400. We're right on the heels of a new naming scheme for the coming decade, so it seems to be an appropriate time to look back. How much has changed over the last decade? Are we headed toward a grim future for the iconic product line, or are soldered memory and internal batteries a temporary misstep?

For the sake of being simple and concise, this article will only be talking about the "main" 14" T-series ThinkPads of every generation. This means that many great ThinkPads (such as the ThinkPad T440p) will not be explicitly mentioned in this article. Please note that this is intentional, as mentioning every single variant of every ThinkPad released since 2009 would make this article quite long. There was the added concern of cherry-picking, so for the sake of an unbiased article variants of these laptops were not mentioned. If there's a definitive ThinkPad you wish was included, feel free to talk about it in the comments!

