And honestly, I am still daily driving that x220 with NetBSD and a T480 with OpenBSD and they do everything I need. Also running a Panasonic SV7 with OpenBSD.

All of them definitely not current gen beasts but if I can't make my shit run there, then what the hell am I even doing?

I mean, there is the expensive option for the x210ai if you don't know about it https://www.tpart.net/about-x210ai/