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 kaszz on Saturday July 01 2017, @04:21AM (1 child)
The plastic case could perhaps be outsourced to some plastic-mould-as-you-order the same way you can order circuit boards online these days. The keyboard could either some existing [eaccessibilitywales.org.uk] model where the case is made to fit around it. Or something that maybe.. could be ordered in the same way the case is. Another approach is simply to use some common laptop keyboard replacement part if continuous delivery can be ensured, ie will it be around one year later and still fit the case. And the same procedure for the touchpad.
The RPi seems to be fast enough, not the racer competitor. But many times this isn't needed. And with a small computer there's room for batteries. Power and charging are available with pretty standard chips and boards.
(Score: 2) by cafebabe on Saturday July 01 2017, @01:57PM
According to MagPi magazine [magpi.cc] issue 58, page 14 [raspberrypi.org], laptop and tablet cases are already available from Pi-Top [pi-top.com]. Unfortunately, they are in a similar style to the OLPC XO [wikipedia.org].
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