>>105682668
The S30 I posted as the op image is from 2001, it has an msata ssd in it.
The limitation with old laptops is material degradation, capacitors failing, batteries failing, screens going yellow, the plastics themselves turning back into oil.
Good quality parts and materials lengthen this lifespan a lot, and third party aftermarket support and mods can counteract those issues entirely.
Someone shoved a framework motherboard into a 701c chassis, and the 701c chassis is notoriously a piece of brittle sticky shit so you can also just 3D print an entire new chassis now because some nerd got mad at their 701c turning to dust and decided to resolve that forever.
Such is the story for many thinkpads
You could Ship of Theseus a T420 for the next 100 years before technology progresses so far that the idea of a capacitor is defunct.