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: 2) by Bot on Saturday July 01 2017, @06:46AM (1 child)
This seems relevant. I wonder how they are doing.
https://www.olimex.com/Products/DIY-Laptop/ [olimex.com]
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(Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday July 01 2017, @07:49AM
With a price of 225 EUR it seems really nice. Especially considering ARM and no UEFI, TPM etc (I hope!). But they are "out of stock". So it doesn't seem like a viable solution. Otoh, if one could make spare parts for an ordinary laptop and with time it's completely made up of spare parts then that might work out too. Let's say people started make a lot of spare parts for one model of the Thinkpads, especially the keyboard would be useful. Then others might add new motherboards etc.