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For the curious, they're talking a trackpad design Lenovo experimented with 2013-2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY70JFZ_cAE https://www.youtube.com/watch
by anon3_ 11y ago
For the curious, they're talking a trackpad design Lenovo experimented with 2013-2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY70JFZ_cAE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY70JFZ_cAE
They removed the physical buttons older thinkpads had [1].
2015 Thinkpads (2015) for X (including x1 carbon), T and W have corrected numerous issues the last generation(s) had, including:
- Bringing back physical keys and the old-style trackpad!
- The "adaptive" function keys on the X1 carbon
- The merged insert key on X series
Lenovo took a bad bet, but give them credit, they fixed 2015 thinkpads.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb7p3VkQCOo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb7p3VkQCOo - Side-by-side comparison.
- frik 11y agoEven the T450 (upcoming 2015 model) is still bad. They learned almost nothing from their 2013 & 2014 failures: http://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/2q8peu/3rd_gen_x1_carbon_and_t450_leaks/ http://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/2q8peu/3rd_gen_x1_... It seems all hope is lost with Lenovo ThinkPad. They simply don't understand what a keyboard layout means nor why it's important to group keys and create keys with different sizes. Also the slim keys are bad in many ways. The omission of the F-keys, the omission of the audio&mic-keys. ThinkPad was easy to open using just 2 screws. Replacing parts was easy. Forget that with their new consumer style T430+ series. I personally give Lenovo one more chance for a "T460" in 2016, but I doubt it will resurface the T420 series style. I would support a kickstarter campaign that sole goal should be creating a premium business notebook "IBM ThinkPad style".
- eveningcoffee 11y agoNew 2015 laptops still do use nonsense 16:9 screens what makes them unusable for serious work.