“I’ve bought a new Thinkpad almost every year since 2006.”
Doctorow gave up on Thinkpads after Lenovo piled on proprietary parts and made Linux harder to install. The Framework scores 10/10 for repairability from iFixit and is about the size of a MacBook. Repairable no longer means a brick. A laptop you can fix ends the yearly replacement habit, which is exactly why the big makers never built one.