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Thinkpads didn't have keyboard backlights until the 2010s.
by nosrepa 1y ago
Thinkpads didn't have keyboard backlights until the 2010s.
- EvanAnderson 1y agoI fondly remember the "ThinkLight"[0] from my ThinkPad T22. I don't know that I prefer it to a backlit keyboard but it was nice. [0] https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkLight https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkLight
- yencabulator 1y agoThey did sometimes have an "overhead" ThinkLight, toggled by a magic Fn+PageUp combo just like some backlights. I think putting in key backlights made the previous spill-proof tray design not viable, so it's not a pure win and I could see why they tried to hang on to the old design. Old Thinkpads could survive repeated spilling of drinks on their keyboard, the only laptop I've seen to cope with that. There was a tray underneath the keys with a drainage hole all the way through the laptop, that way the liquid didn't reach any zappy bits.
- Rediscover 1y ago> ...survive repeated spilling of drinks on their keyboard... Panasonic's "Let's Note" series, too. Their machines from ~2002 were quite impressive to me.
- Tsiklon 1y agoThey still make these! You can pick up a recent model with the circular track pad relatively easily on eBay! 10th Gen Intel at least