I’m talking abundant I/O, great repairability/easy to open, maintain. A laptop from back when laptop manufacturers didn’t hate us.
The closest I got was a dell latitude 5500 which has decent I/O and a pretty modern processor.
If Lenovo were to make a modern T42 or something like that, not sparing the ports.
Framework seems like the ideal choice but right now it is out of my price range. For long term however it does seem like the best choice right now.
That MNT laptop sure looks fun to use (and modify to my liking). However it is expensive. But I do like its open mindset