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Lenovo Accidentally Leaks an Image of Its ‘Retro Thinkpad’
- funwithjustin 9y ago"Accidentally"
- dom0 9y ago"Leaked"
- cyberferret 9y agoNice. I've used ThinkPads for many decades now. Love the retro look and keyboard feel. Might have to replace my W520 soon...
- kev009 9y agoI will probably end up buying one of these because I am a complete sucker for the concept and that keyboard is to die for. But I have a ThinkPad P50 right now and it is pretty much the ultimate laptop.. 4k screen w/color correction, trackpoint, 2x nvme storage, Xeon with 64G ECC RAM. It doesn't even cost that much if you do all the non-soldered stuff yourself off newegg.
- blfr 9y agoThinkPad P50 right now and it is pretty much the ultimate laptop Impressive specs but not terribly mobile. It's 377.4 x 252.3 mm (14.86" x 9.93") and the weight starts at 2.5 kg (5.6 lbs).
- kev009 9y agoI didn't actually /want/ a 15", previously I'd always used T4x and T4xx, but the specs are not possible on the existing 14". The specs outweigh the form factor for me by far. It is usable on an airplane. Weight doesn't bother me at all, and it's not heavy or thick. But I'd buy a 14" if I could get the same specs.
- nullc 9y agoGigantic useless trackpad. Looks like no status leds. Where oh where is the x60 of today? Is there some place where I can just pay them the profit margin for this laptop and have the count added to their sales figures? This laptop is an improvement, but it looks like it still has a long way to go. :(
- devwastaken 9y agoTrackpad isn't useless, but it not having physical left and right buttons sure is. The worst design decision of laptops is having it one 'pad' that you have to guess where the left and right is.
- rocqua 9y agoThere are physical buttons above the trackpad. Granted, they are meant for the trackpoint, but they are still there.
- devwastaken 9y agoYes, but your palm is resting on the touchpad now, moving it around.
- coaxial 9y agoYou can disable the trackpad entirely, either via your OS or better yet in the BIOS.
- robotmay 9y agoLooks the same as what I have on my X250. I hit the corners of it with my palms all the time :\ Other than that and the crap display panel used in it, it has been a great little laptop so far.
- jpalomaki 9y agoYou can disable trackpad in bios.
- Terr_ 9y agoDoes it come with newer spyware?
- klez 9y agoThe Thinkpads never came with spyware (none that we know of). Only the consumer products did (IdeaPad & co.)
- pls2halp 9y agoI’m pretty sure I saw a Windows 10 start menu, so yes.
- Crontab 9y agoThis is the correct answer. Microsoft has made Windows 10 a joke - which I hate to say because I have generally liked the NT line.
- 5706906c06c 9y agoSuperfish was installed on the consumer version of their notebooks: https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/superfish https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/superfish
- binaryapparatus 9y agoReal beauty. I rarely use laptops but I will get this one as soon as it is available.
- einrealist 9y agoLets hope they did not just put retro keys on a chiclet keyboard. And if this thing is on par with a T470p, they can shut up and take my money!
- klez 9y agoWhile I see were you're coming from, even the x60 (which is still IBM-branded) had chiclet keys, and so does the x220 (my weapon of choice), but it's still a great keyboard (at least, it is for me and for many people I read on the various *chans when ThinkPad topics are discussed, so ymmv)
- cturner 9y agoThe chiclet keys are not consistent. I have a first-gen x1 carbon, and enjoy typing as much as on my mechanical keyboards. Last year I briefly had a T460S. The typing was shallower, and noticeably less fun. I never had an old style keyboard, and only then began to understand the upset in the forums about the chiclet keyboards. Lenovo should have put more effort into ensuring quality across the range when making such a big brand change as a keyboard change.
- askvictor 9y agoThe x220 did not have chiclet keys (at least not the 700 or so of them that i purchased and administered).
- einrealist 9y agoWell, the key travel is different today. I want the experience back that I had with a X60 or the X201s and X220 (which I still have and use). The experience that I have with my X240 or my T260p is certainly different. Its not bad, but different. But maybe its just the keys. We will see.
- noir_lord 9y agoAs a T470P owner I'm glad I didn't wait, I don't like the design of the retro at all.
- PaulRobinson 9y agoI found my 240 the other week when unpacking some boxes I'd not looked in for years after moving house. Genuinely great little machine. A decent retro Thinkpad as a Hackintosh would probably make me a very happy camper...
- amiga-workbench 9y agoThe X220 can be hackintoshed rather easily.
- limeblack 9y agoI have messed with macOS on Thinkpads and the updates are an absolute pain. Not even to mention the iMessage and App Store issues. Yes there are workarounds.
- thinbeige 9y agoI (as a decade long MBP user) still think that Thinkpads nailed notebook design. Since I moved more and more to Arch on a cheap Chinese notebook which seems to replace my MBP for 90% of my tasks I hope to get a Thinkpad with Arch as my next main notebook.
- Crontab 9y agoWhat model notebook did you move to?
- fit2rule 9y agoNot the OP, but I'm moving from a 2017 MBP-touchbar to the GDP Pocket, which is .. almost .. the perfect Linux machine for my needs. I only hope GPD scale up and keep this up - its beyond time for Apple to have competition in the unibody-laptop department ..
- thinbeige 9y agoIt's the Xiaomi Mi 12.5". It's a great subnotebook, Arch working flawlessly since all parts are from Intel but sometimes I need a bigger screen thinking that 14" of a Thinkpad X1 might be the sweet spot.
- nextos 9y agoI came here to say exactly the same thing. This machine is absolutely great. Do you own the fanless m3 one?
- koolba 9y agoWhere do you buy Xiaomi laptops? First couple of sites that came up after a basic search were either selling Chinese versions or priced in HKD. Is there a preferred USA based distributor?
- Crontab 9y agoI would like to know as well.
- josteink 9y agoIf that's the real deal, I hope the Ctrl and Fn keys can be swapped in bios. My muscle-memory just can't cope with control not being lower left.
- nothrabannosir 9y agoLast Lenovo I had (±2y ago), it actually could. So there's a good chance this will be possible.
- arthurcolle 9y agolooks like alan kay's dynabook
- fit2rule 9y agoI think the GPD Pocket looks more like a dynabook these days ..
- infodroid 9y agoI'm not sure what is so retro about the 16:9 display. Surely Lenovo can do better than that?
- yoodenvranx 9y agoYes, I am still using an old 4:3 Lenovo T61 and I wish there would be a modern replacement!
- sverige 9y agoI keep using my T60, dreading the day some component gives out.
- yoodenvranx 9y agoI am thinking about buying 1 or 2 more laptops as backup. They are dirt cheap on ebay/craigslist and it is very easy to rebuild them.
- shabbyrobe 9y agoOh god yes. 16:9 is an absolute deal breaker for me. After the task bar, tool bar, menu bar, ridiculously oversized fixed position website nav bar, "up next: more related garbage" fixed position pseudo-ad footer and whatever else decides it wants to eat my vertical space, a 16:10 screen offers me a good 200% increase in usable pixels for whatever piece of content I was actually interested in in the first place. If only Firefox would hurry up and integrate tree styled tabs without requiring one of several now-obsolete extensions, the experience of using a computer might become marginally less terrible. But of course I'm not holding my breath waiting for anyone in this sorry saga to do something that actually helps until I'm forced to read every single website one 200-word line at a time.
- bonzini 9y agoI'm not sure no one even makes 4:3 panels with a diagonal more than a few inches long. I would have hoped for the light, though... It is one of the reasons why I am clinging to my X230.
- bitL 9y agoNice! Finally something with non-chiclet keyboard! I am in! My wrists will rejoice!
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- kwhitefoot 9y agoNot retro enough. I want an up to date T62p. The original had a 1600x1200 screen! Surely should be able to get a better screen than that now, but no the W540 that the company leases for me is worse in almost every way. On the T62p I could view an A4 pdf in life size. I suppose I could do the same on a modern Thinkpad if I were to rotate it 90 degrees, :-(
- emergie 9y agoThey did a 7row keyboard - thats good. But why they had to mess with Insert key? I want t60/t400 keyboard, not this t420ish
- Multicomp 9y agoFinally a great-great-grandchild for my 380XD