Lenovo might release a retro thinkpad

[Keg Ops]

6 hours ago, dbx10 said:

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Not with this man around.

[Okjoek]

I like this idea. How is the build quality for those laptops?

[Nowak]

5 hours ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

Looks like it.

Took a snip of the screen in the teaser and it was 16:9.

Pretty disappointed, considering how the polls David Hill took a couple years ago had people vote for an 8:5 display.

[sof006]

I want this. I want all of this.

[dexT]

6 hours ago, Okjoek said:

I like this idea. How is the build quality for those laptops?

OG Thinkpads? The best ever.

[suicidalfranco]

8 hours ago, Okjoek said:

I like this idea. How is the build quality for those laptops?

the polar opposite of a razer laptop 

[Okjoek]

Just now, suicidalfranco said:

the polar opposite of a razer laptop 

I've never owned a Razer laptop so I don't get the joke. 

[suicidalfranco]

7 minutes ago, Okjoek said:

I've never owned a Razer laptop so I don't get the joke. 

too lazy to type another wall of text, so i'll let louis do the talking for me

 

[Dash Lambda]

Looks cool, but not enough info to really be interested.

I'll be elated if it's not just the keyboard but also a more blocky and functional overall design like it used to be, they've been moving away from that and it frustrates and depresses me.

Truthfully, I don't actually care about the keyboard. I love the current keyboard, and to my knowledge the thing everyone gets misty-eyed about is the layout -The only thing I don't like about the current layout is the placement of the goddamn Fn key, and that mistake has been on them a lot longer.

[themctipers]

finally, a laptop to replace my core duo fake thonkpad.

 

 

one that checks most of the boxes..

 

shit wait, its $1500 CAD?! 

[SpaceGhostC2C]

It's not like the looks have changed much since then. You could tell me that it's just another new model and I wouldn't notice. 

[JAKEBAB]

Wow so it only took them 2 years? I thought this thing was released back in 2015, I remember wendell talking about it.

 

http://blog.lenovo.com/en/blog/retro-thinkpad-time-machine/

[SpaceGhostC2C]

9 minutes ago, JAKEBAB said:

Wow so it only took them 2 years? I thought this thing was released back in 2015, I remember wendell talking about it.

 

http://blog.lenovo.com/en/blog/retro-thinkpad-time-machine/

Oh, so basically someone resurfaced this old render and everyone started freaking out?

 

[patrick3027]

On 15/09/2017 at 9:03 AM, Daring said:

Is that a 16:9 display?

16:10 actually

[ignaloidas]

On 9/15/2017 at 11:08 AM, TheBeastPC said:

the little red nittle in the middle of the keyboard is pointless in this day in age, because the majority of laptops on the consumer market have trackpads, in which my opinion are a whole lot better when it comes to navigating to different programs as well as general use.

It's very useful if you are doing a lot of writing, as you don't need to move your hand away from keyboard to type. That's why I buy only thinkpads, because o other stupid manufacturer hadn't put any of these on their own models

[Dackzy]

On 15/9/2017 at 3:06 PM, dizmo said:

That's gorgeous. Definitely a contender for my ultrabook replacement. Hopefully it gets a massive battery. 

It's coming out. There's no question about that. 

They've already stated it won't be priced that  high. 

They all still have the internal structural support, do they not?  

With the info I have gathered then you are looking at a T470, which has gone through some cosmetic changes to look more like a T420, but they are still missing the bottom left and right click buttons, which kinda makes me sad since I hate that integrates left and right click track pad.

On 16/9/2017 at 9:38 AM, SpaceGhostC2C said:

Oh, so basically someone resurfaced this old render and everyone started freaking out?

 

No, Lenovo has been talking quite a bit about it this year and they have confirmed that they have prototypes of it up and running. It is going to be a special edition for their 25 year anniversary 

[dizmo]

15 minutes ago, Dackzy said:

With the info I have gathered then you are looking at a T470, which has gone through some cosmetic changes to look more like a T420, but they are still missing the bottom left and right click buttons, which kinda makes me sad since I hate that integrates left and right click track pad.

No, Lenovo has been talking quite a bit about it this year and they have confirmed that they have prototypes of it up and running. It is going to be a special edition for their 25 year anniversary 

A 48whr battery is pretty underwhelming. I can get a Dell XPS 13 and get a 60whr.

[handymanshandle]

On 9/15/2017 at 8:09 AM, Dan Castellaneta said:

Looks like it.

Took a snip of the screen in the teaser and it was 16:9.

Looks an awful like your old ThinkPad lol but then again ThinkPads have always kinda looked the same or not too much difference.

[Dackzy]

22 minutes ago, dizmo said:

A 48whr battery is pretty underwhelming. I can get a Dell XPS 13 and get a 60whr.

You can get a 6 cell 72wh battery in the T470

[kelvinhall05]

I hope it's not too expensive, otherwise I'll just buy a Carbon X1.

[iamdarkyoshi]

On 15/09/2017 at 12:34 AM, revsilverspine said:

My first laptop didn't have a trackpad. Just the nip and two buttons for controlling the cursor. Fun times. (was an IBM ThinkPad, if memory serves)

Was it by chance a G40? Because my G40 only had a trackpoint. Presumably because most of it was battery and heatsink...

[You_are_a_cunt]

5 minutes ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

Was it by chance a G40? Because my G40 only had a trackpoint. Presumably because most of it was battery and heatsink...

Nah. Not even close.

I remember it being fairly slim, even though it had a floppy drive. On-lid adjustment for brightness and contrast. Screen was black and white.

I'll try to see if it's still anywhere in storage or if I can track it down on the intertubes.

 

I'm 110% it only had a trackpoint and that it was IBM, since those were pretty much the only things you could find around here.

 

edit:

@iamdarkyoshi it might have been a Thinkpad 300 or something very similar (I think the floppy drive was on the right back corner, not the front corner on the right)

[Droidbot]

WHERE

THE 

FUCK IS THE FUCKING THINKLIGHT

[You_are_a_cunt]

Just now, Droidbot said:

 

calm yo tit.

[Droidbot]

3 minutes ago, revsilverspine said:

calm yo tit.

but the thinklight is the innovation of the century and beats a shitty backlit board any day