I find your post oddly self-contradictory. I mean, yes, the loyalty to Thinkpads was in part because they had great keyboards. The first I had new, an i12200 s

I find your post oddly self-contradictory. I mean, yes, the loyalty to Thinkpads was in part because they had great keyboards. The first I had new, an i12200 series model 1163, was a badge-engineered thing made by Acer, with nasty plastic screen hinges that failed, only USB 1, only 1 SO-DIMM slot, etc... but it still had the IBM keyboard. But the thing is that since the ?30 series (X230, T430, W530) Lenovo has gone over to awful chiclet keyboards. So the model you cite is a late one with a nasty flat almost-no-travel keyboard. Which is why I only use ?20 series or older, which have the good, 7-row keyboards.