Re:Thinkpad X62
by post_break on Monday September 18, 2017 @09:15AM
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Thinkpad retro is coming soon. Modern thinkpad with old school keyboard.
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Thank you for mentioning that! I had to go find some more details. https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/retro-thinkpad-image...
Oh wow! I thought this project had died; I'm so excited. I type this on a five-year-old Thinkpad. Every year I look at the Lenovo site, see what fresh horrors the keyboard contains, and sigh.
Re:Thinkpad X62
by artursapek on Monday September 18, 2017 @09:52AM
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I hope it's so successful that Lenovo stops treating it as a "fun project" and starts offering evolutions of it as part of their main product line.
Sadly I don't think it will be. The problem is most businesses will probably view it as a novelty line and stay clear in favor of the mainstream product lines. This will lead to Lenovo claiming it was a failure in the long run because there was low-demand and burying this issue for good.
Looks disappointing to me because no 4:3 screen.
Re:Thinkpad X62
by insertnickname on Monday September 18, 2017 @11:08AM
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Most laptops are terrible. We should celebrate that this one might not have a terrible keyboard.