We've really never had anything which ticked all those boxes, so I don't see a regression there.
Only Lenovo is doing trackpoint seriously these days. Hardly anyone is paying any attention to Linux. I'm no expert, but I've never even heard of a laptop with a good mechanical keyboard.
It's not just Lenovo, it's the whole market which decided people want junk like 1mm thick retina tablets with soldered ram and permanent batteries. Lenovo and everyone on the block is selling high-resolution crap though, so I'm sure you'll get that any time.
The old T60p (and other T-series before they got into the hundreds) came damn close. 1680x1050 was solid at the time, and the keyboard on that plateaued peak that Lenovo/IBM have never really climbed past.
Well, the x220 had an excellent keyboard, and ticked all boxes except the screen. It even included an Ethernet port and a non-ULV CPU. The previous X1 Carbon was also pretty close in many respects.
Only Lenovo is doing trackpoint seriously these days. Hardly anyone is paying any attention to Linux. I'm no expert, but I've never even heard of a laptop with a good mechanical keyboard.
It's not just Lenovo, it's the whole market which decided people want junk like 1mm thick retina tablets with soldered ram and permanent batteries. Lenovo and everyone on the block is selling high-resolution crap though, so I'm sure you'll get that any time.