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+title: The patrician's choice
+author: Allan Nordhøy
+layout: single
+permalink: /the-patricians-choice/
+excerpt: REFORM NOW.
+categories:
+  - News
+tags:
+  - Crowdfunder
+  - ARM
+  - gallery:
+  - url: /assets/images/36c3one.jpg
+    image_path: /assets/images/36c3one.jpg
+  - url: /assets/images/36c3two.jpg
+    image_path: /assets/images/36c3two.jpg
+  - url: /assets/images/ThinkPad555BJ.jpg.jpg
+    image_path: /assets/images/ThinkPad555BJ.jpg.jpg
+---
+
+Spiritually, this is a ThinkPad
+in the way that ThinkPads used to be ThinkPads,
+but are no longer, though in name only.
+
+Construction, quality, mechanical, tactility.
+
+It is a symphony of productivity.
+
+If Richard Sapper lived to see the day,
+he would have wanted to use it.
+It is an experience, that appreciation of an object
+crafted with a laudable goal in mind. An assembled unity
+that makes for a communicative nod between you and its
+creator. You need not know who, because if you didn't already know,
+now you know why.
+
+If it doesn't matter to you how, where, by whom, and from what
+things are made, then change that about yourself.
+If not, at least aim to land somewhere between the corporate cobblestones and
+the suicide nets they put up.
+
+Sometimes one wishes everyone understood
+the quality of something made to last; what once was.
+
+You may not be old enough to remember trackballing laptops,
+if so at fault of the times we are in.
+Trackballs are still quietly superior, and clicky buttons still rule the day.
+Well, I guess they just started making 'em like they used to.
+You can get one for your children, and it doesn't matter if you havent got any yet.
+
+It doesn't have lies, because it doesn't need
+lies. And where does it record your face? Nowhere.
+It is made with honesty, and with that in mind;
+Proprietary horseshit? No. Just no. Yes. Yes indeed.
+
+{% include gallery caption="Here it is hanging out with the Dragonbox Pyra at 36c3" %}
+
+What a world it is to be bestowed the manifestation
+of every form-factor one could want.
+To parttake in it, be it by building your own,
+putting together the parts, or taking them apart.
+
+Imagine this, you don't have to deal with
+corporate nonsense, because it runs Linux|GNU,
+and as a Remmina user, you can close all other nonsense when you are done with it,
+and you are. Business is back in business.
+
+You are at home, or where you want to be.
+It doesn't matter that ThinkPad quality went to shit.
+You have a trackball.
+Nothing matters when you have a trackball.
+
+The laptop reborn, from the cold dead hands of lesser men that
+tried to get their feeble and weak hands on them.
+
+If some youngin tries to tell you it is not corporate policy to have one,
+appreciate its heft as it hits the small-minded individual in the head
+from afar. You need not worry, because chances are you can keep working away
+without the hinge having moved. Productivity strikes.
+
+What kind of patrician has a trackball on their laptop?
+You.