Just days after Lenovo Group Chief Yang Yuanqing hinted that Lenovo may be pulling out of the PC and Server markets in favor of focusing on datacenters and mobile devices, long-time Thinkpad designer and Retro Thinkpad Project Manager David Hill has announced his resignation from the company. Mr. Hill, who had been in charge of the original ThinkPad design in the early 90's and rose to the rank of Vice President of Design at Lenovo, states:
"I want to broaden my view and create the opportunity to do more in the field of design, not less."
The 25th Anniversary "Retro ThinkPad" project, which was in development for over two years and received over 13,000 responses from long-time ThinkPad fans, is still, for the time being, scheduled for an October 5th announcement. Could internal pressures to minimize costs have resulted in Mr. Hill deciding to take his name off the Retro ThinkPad project which he spearheaded for two and a half years?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 01 2017, @12:52AM
Lenovo has had a 3:2 Thinkpad for the past two years.
Nobody wants it because it's Windows 10 only.
The 7-row keyboard was done away with because they can use the same PCB for their desktop machines *and* their convertible laptops with the new layout. So it saves them about $20/machine.
It's a race to the fucking bottom.
Build yourself an X62 or a T70 Flexview if you want a retro machine.