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I had a W500 and the keyboard was amazing (as was the whole laptop). I replaced the screen, the hard drive, memory, etc. I've bought Thinkpads since IBM sold th

I had a W500 and the keyboard was amazing (as was the whole laptop). I replaced the screen, the hard drive, memory, etc. I've bought Thinkpads since IBM sold them because of their keyboards and nub. I hate the numeric keypad. It throws the balance off and I feel like I have to shift the laptop to the right to type. Is the demographic that wants the numeric keyboard that large? They used to sell a separate one for accounting types, now they all have them and I hate it. They also switched to the chicklet style like Apple. I like the chicklet style on the Macs but I don't think I'd like it on a Thinkpad. I believe they took a row off the keyboard and jammed them together in some jacked up configuration. The home/end/pageup/down isn't in a position that resembles a 101/104. That aggravates me too. I'm ready to buy a new laptop. My 2013 rMBP is getting old. I've had to repair the trackpad and now it's complaining about a memory module. I looked at the P51s and P71s, but that damn keypad. Come back to us old Thinkpad keyboard, it was a real differentiator.

zzalpha 9y ago
Give something like the T470 a try in-store somewhere. I had an old T410 with the old school Thinkpad keyboard, and I loved it, but the chicklet style that Lenovo uses these days is actually pretty damn good.
- Clubber 9y ago
  We had a T4xx series at work. I forgot the exact model. The keyboard was really good, old Thinkpad style, but the home/end key is in a weird place. As a coder, I use home and end probably more than any other keys except maybe space (and backspace hah). I thought about getting one, but I wasn't sure if I could get past it. I map the Cmd-> and Cmd<- on my Mac to the home and end. It works really well in a Windows VM. Might get the new MacBook, but I'd buy a Thinkpad with an old style layout in a second if it existed. I even tried resurrecting my old W500 to use as an RDP machine, but it's too far gone.

zzalpha 9y ago

Give something like the T470 a try in-store somewhere. I had an old T410 with the old school Thinkpad keyboard, and I loved it, but the chicklet style that Lenovo uses these days is actually pretty damn good.

Clubber 9y ago
We had a T4xx series at work. I forgot the exact model. The keyboard was really good, old Thinkpad style, but the home/end key is in a weird place. As a coder, I use home and end probably more than any other keys except maybe space (and backspace hah). I thought about getting one, but I wasn't sure if I could get past it. I map the Cmd-> and Cmd<- on my Mac to the home and end. It works really well in a Windows VM. Might get the new MacBook, but I'd buy a Thinkpad with an old style layout in a second if it existed. I even tried resurrecting my old W500 to use as an RDP machine, but it's too far gone.