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I did some research and just purchased Thinkpad X1 Nano Gen 9 last week. My Debian Linux setup was fairly easy.

I had to drop Macbooks because it's NVMe SSD is soldered and is not upgradable.

Thinkpad X1 Carbon is a decent choice, but they all seemed to be limited to 1920x1080 screen resolution for some reason -- which is a big-no for me.

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I was surprised regarding the 1920x1080 screen. I have a Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 6 from 2018 running linux, and it has a 2560x1440 screen with 500 nits of brightness. For what it's worth, the Gen 10 has an optional 2240x1400 screen, but the brightness is limited to 300 nits, and it has a thicker bezel.

My 2018 Thinkpad also has 16 GB of RAM and a 1 TB NVMe SSD. I was tempted to upgrade it since it has been 4 years, but after looking at current offerings, it seems there is not much point (the new processors are way better, though).

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