old T (until t440p) you could upgrade the cpu as well, and they are dirt cheap on aliexpress

don’t know if a refurbished thinkpad is good if you’re on a budget, by the time you realise you might have a couple dozen of them on your desk all running linux

just choose something that’s been around for a while, e.g. debian, opensuse, fedora, etc

do two wrongs make a right?

so do they not have the same updates on fwupd/efi updaters?

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Apple_iPhone_X_(Global)_(apple-d22)