> couldn’t even align the ‘B’ properly.

That's because of the low profile TrackPoint. The upper notch on the B key is larger than it was on older ThinkPads with the high profile TrackPoint.

This is nothing new; every recent ThinkPad with the low profile TrackPoint has the B label offset like this. It's not something you notice when actually using the machine: I've been using a ThinkPad Yoga 460 for most of this year, and never realized the B label was offset until I saw people talking about it when the T25 keyboard photos were leaked.

Unlike the high profile TrackPoints on all my previous ThinkPads, the low profile one never leaves a smudge on the screen. I'll take that over a perfectly aligned key label any day.

The x62 is super attractive, except even the sxga+ mod is still a dim CCFL, or if you mod for led slightly brighter but colors all wrong with all sorts of artifacts from the light strip, and aftermarket-only awful batteries.

-An sxga+ (w/led mod) x61s owner.

Typing this on an LED SXGA X61, you want: https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/thinkpad/led-kit.shtml

No banding on the bottom, accurate colors, and great brightness.

My mod was less successful, and the colors are definitely off. Having done the mod myself and seen how cumbersome it is to get the LED strip perfectly oriented in the CCFL gutter, I'm not likely to try again.

I would _love_ to get me an x320/x330. But I can't for the life of me find a place that actually sells them. The one place that I found is a facebook group where it seems that they have been unresponsive for around half a year.

EDIT: For those who do not want to google it themselves: https://forum.51nb.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=1699442&...

https://imgur.com/a/0m3a1#FpKEHYl

> I’m sorry, they had years to prepare this and couldn’t even align the ‘B’ properly.

Just so I make sure I understand you correctly: you're complaining about the positioning of the label on the key (since it has to be shifted due to the notch caused by the trackpoint)? That is, you're not complaining about the key itself, merely the label?

We're talking about the same people who refuse to fix the non-standard Ctrl and Fn key placement here.

What is non-standard about it? Every ThinkPad since they first added an Fn key has had it in the same place, and every MacBook has it there too. It would be dumb for them to arbitrarily change it now, but you can easily switch it in the BIOS if you prefer the other order.

How to grab attention for nothing. Could have reduced the trackpoint outer rim ..