They definitely know that it runs arch though

Well, I'm glad you didn't die before enjoying your AMD variant of the Thinkpad T16 Gen 2 specced to the gills.

Not to ruin your fun, but in my opinion anything after the T400 series is no good. More and more components were designed to be non replaceable. Really it started with the end of the IBM era but they were still really good for a while after. Now i would always go for repair focused designs like framework, system76, etc

I've got a p16s Gen1 w/the Intel chip because I couldn't wait (I mean literally, I had a deadline) and I am very jealous. Congrats fellow Thinkpad enjoyer.

[I wish I could buy modern Thinkpads with the old keyboards again, I really hate everything past, say, the X1 carbon 5th gen]

I have the t14 gen 3 amd variant. Ok build quality, keyboard is kinda shit even compared to the thinkpad x1 carbon gen 6. Buttons on trackpad doesn't feel right either. But compared to any other modern laptop, I would still get a thinkpad. Just compared to any previous thinkpad laptops, it's much worse. Even the thinkpad t14 gen 2 had an sd card slot, the gen 3 doesn't, and ram is soldered and non-upgradable on the amd variant, last generation was upgradable.

Good for you

Another thinkpad enjoyer.

Just got my first thinkpad too, the x1 carbon gen 11

Yeeey :D