Re:ThinkPad Anniversary Edition 25: Limited Edition ThinkPad...
by Zak on Thursday October 05, 2017 @01:37PM
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The benefit is that it can be used to illuminate objects other than the keys, such as a paper you're copying information from. A thinklight with higher color quality, and maybe adjustable brightness would solve the problems you had with it; white LEDs have come a long way in the past decade.
Re:ThinkPad Anniversary Edition 25: Limited Edition ThinkPad...
by tosstossy on Thursday October 05, 2017 @03:04PM
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I use the thinklight for illuminating RSA keyfobs in the dark. Granted, I can tilt the screen and crank up its brightness to achieve the same thing, but it's cumbersome and maybe some people would prefer to read something illuminated while typing and seeing the screen simultaneously. At least my RSA codes are short enough to type from memory.
i found that while using my laptop in an unlit room with the thinklight, the blue function icons were impossible to distinguish and the top-left and top-right corners of the keyboard required straining my eyes. i was 18-20 years old with 20/20 vision at the time.
i would actually be very tempted by this release if i hadn't just bought a dell XPS because i love the trackpoint (and lenovo's was always leagues ahead of dell's) and i love having dedicated volume controls and a hardware mute button (i can let my function keys be function keys without missing out on single-key volume control).