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Would You Buy an Up-To-Date Classic Thinkpad?

posted by janrinok on Sunday June 28 2015, @11:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the time-for-some-nostalgia dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Lenovo design chief David Hill is asking for feedback about an up-top-date classic Thinkpad

"Imagine a blue enter key, 7 row classic keyboard, 16:10 aspect ratio screen, multi-color ThinkPad logo, dedicated volume controls, rubberized paint, exposed screws, lots of status LED's, and more", he writes, asking whether this would be the ThinkPad of choice for the design connoisseur, or too old school?

ThinkPad Time Machine?

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  • (Score: 1) by soybp on Monday June 29 2015, @06:32PM

    by soybp (2065) on Monday June 29 2015, @06:32PM (#202938)

    I have personally owned around 7 Thinkpads, beginning with a Thinkpad 380, and have spec'd hundreds of Thinkpads for technology startups over the years. Whereas this is typed on a T520 (i7 quad core, nice keyboard and expansion bay with HDD in it and living in a great docking station), it is definitely the last Thinkpad I will ever be accountable for purchasing. I have sold friends and co-workers on Thinkpads for almost two decades, but now suggest overpriced Apple MacBook Pros booting into Win7 for engineers looking for quality laptop.

    The days of quality Thinkpad is over, and I wish I could find a better solution than MacBook + Win7, which will likely be my next round of purchases. While Lenovo is certainly trying to drum up some old-school cool discussion of how great the old Thinkpad was, that brand is gone. I am actually thinking to try to find a decent/refurb x220 to keep around since that was what I consider to be a perfect performance travel machine, save the fact is is now several years' old technology now.

    RIP Thinkpad, I only wish whatever Lenovo is thinking of now would approach the decent design of the old x220 which was the last of the acceptable designs to emit from their unfortunate downward spiral of the brand.

  • (Score: 2) by bart9h on Monday June 29 2015, @08:35PM

    by bart9h (767) on Monday June 29 2015, @08:35PM (#202990)

    I wish I could find a better solution than MacBook + Win7

    MacBook + Linux?

    ducks

    • (Score: 1) by soybp on Monday June 29 2015, @11:40PM

      by soybp (2065) on Monday June 29 2015, @11:40PM (#203078)

      For me personally, yes, when I can. For work, which pays for my and colleagues' laptop consumption, native Win7 is needed for a lot of the engineering software we use. Solidworks and Aspen Plus are the main drivers for the Win7 choice, I wish I could find a decent alternative for us aside from virtualization.