Lenovo Announces Limited-Edition ThinkPad Anniversary Edition 25

[ltguy]

The price is quite high. For that money i'd expect a quad-core i7 and a current nvidia gpu. Lenovo always seems to launch new products right after intel or nvidia has released their new stuff making lenovo always look overpiced and behind the curve.  I also wish i could customize it and not pay the insane upcharge they want for 16gb of memory and 512gb ssd. I cant see spending almost 2000 on a laptop with a crappy dual core i7, especially since they could have just waited a month and released it with the new 15w intel quad cores. I love thinkpads but cant spend $2000 on a nostalgia toy. I have a $600 thinkpad with nearly identical specs already.

[potoooooooo]

5 hours ago, SeriousDad69 said:

To the gamers that are going to whine about it costing a lot or looking bad, this is a laptop for working and making money. This is a laptop for when you need to setup 20 surveillance cameras in a local grocery store and you accidentally drop it from a 12ft ladder and it still works.

Don't be an idiot, this ls literally just a t470 with a different keyboard. The T470 starts at 730 dollars, this starting at 1900 is a fucking joke and lenovo should be ashamed.

[PlayStation 2]

Are they really charging fucking $1900USD for this.

This is plain fucking stupid, even by my standards.

[Dash Lambda]

For a moment I though that was the Haswell/Broadwell generation chassis. I wonder how much is different...

 

On 10/5/2017 at 8:29 AM, Droidbot said:

Shitty clickpad.

Could you explain that? It has mouse buttons. That's the thing I noticed most when I got my T450s over my T440s (warranty replacement), they're perfectly fine.

 

On 10/5/2017 at 8:29 AM, Droidbot said:

Shitty specs (8th gen and MX150 is out, ffs).

The 7th gen CPU is understandable, since they obviously didn't make this in a week (nor did they even really change it from their existing laptops past the surface...). The low-end Maxwell chip, I quite frankly find baffling... I wonder why they're still using that...

 

On 10/5/2017 at 8:29 AM, Droidbot said:

No ThinkLight.

Could you explain this one too? It has a backlit keyboard, I (having used ThinkLight style lighting before, though admittedly not heavily) think that's an upgrade. I see mention of using it for reading and whatnot, but... Really? Is reading-light functionality why people wouldn't want keyboard lighting to more directly and effectively improve visibility of the keyboard itself?

 

On 10/5/2017 at 8:29 AM, Droidbot said:

No 4:3 or 16:10, instead 16:9 garbage that nobody asked for.

Isn't more screen real-estate a good thing? As long as they don't sacrifice vertical space and the horizontal space doesn't get out of hand, I don't see the problem here. Usually if I'm reading a PDF or something that just uses the middle I use a split-page view.
In fact, I split up windows a lot. Instructions on the right word processor on the left, API on the right IDE on the left, often even just two documents up while I'm doing math or something on a whiteboard or in a notebook. I would not want a narrower panel.

 

On 10/5/2017 at 8:29 AM, Droidbot said:

Mediocre build quality.

I don't have much experience with older ThinkPads, but I'd say it's less about build quality and more about priorities. Older ThinkPads are more robust and durable, newer ones are more dense and streamlined. Indeed I'd actually say the newer ones are too dense and streamlined...

I think the X1 line was the start of the death of the rest of the lineup. For some reason they're forgetting that each series has its own purpose and trying to make everything an X series, like going so far as to actually get rid of the removable battery and drainage ports in the T460s for no reason.

They're still some of the best built laptops you can get, just less durable than they used to be.

 

On 10/5/2017 at 8:29 AM, Droidbot said:

No proper drainage for water (see x220 vs x240 coffee video) or resistance against drops (roll cages??).

Looks like the chassis still has drainage to me. The T470s doesn't, and the X series doesn't, but if you look at the bottom the T470 has 'em...
Unless they're not used, in which case I tip my hat to Lenovo in fearful respect of how impressively stupid they can be.

 

Though, despite my defense, I do think ThinkPads are just getting worse and I'm surprised at how little effort they put into this for being a 'retro' product. I do wonder what they'd look like today if IBM was still in charge...

[Nowak]

• Hinges in the wrong place
• 16:9 instead of 16:10
• Battery sticks out the wrong way
• Keyboard material is different
• Promised Linux support, but it includes a GT 940MX
• No ThinkLight, instead there's a backlit keyboard

 

gg no re lenovo

[AnonymousGuy]

My parents have a Pentium 1 (66Mhz I think?) powered IBM Thinkpad.  It came with a brightness slider next to the screen and a lever to tilt the keyboard up an an angle.  It also had modular bays to swap in extra batteries or a zip drive or whatever.  It still works too on Windows 95, but the keyboard is so used that you have to gorilla-finger it to get the keys to go down now.   This one does none of that and basically looks like they just mildly changed the keyboard on a current thinkpad and price gouge the shit out of it.

 

And I'll take my HP Elitebook any day over a Lenovo Thinkpad.  Terrible trackpads, and I don't want page up and page down next to the arrow keys.

[dizmo]

Love the design, hate the price.

I mean, I do get how it's that expensive. No i5 option, and you have to go with their inflated prices for the SSD and RAM.

I can't help but compare this to their own P51S, which comes in $700 cheaper with the same component hardware, and if you're willing to forgo some of the potentially useless stuff (fingerprint reader, touch screen, dropping to 256GB SSD (still overpriced)) then you're saving $1,000.

Hopefully they see massive interest and decide to make a more reasonable model of it, or perhaps even offer the keyboard set up across all models as an option.

[patrick3027]

I can't find the price on the French Lenovo website. Is there anywhere where I can see European pricing or can actually buy one? 

[Tech_Dreamer]

looks tooo chunky

[dexT]

They should sell just the chassis for retrofitting think and ideapads lol. I'd buy.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

Really Lenovo? You've been phasing out the beloved ThinkPad keyboard for the past few years and now you bring it back with a $2549 CAD price tag? What kind of a tease is this? I really hope that they're going to be re-introducing that keyboard throughout their lineup again. 

[Embattled]

5 hours ago, Tech_Dreamer said:

looks tooo chunky

It's a thinkpad

[D13H4RD]

And Lenovo asks why they aren't doing so hot...

[Ithanul]

On 10/5/2017 at 1:11 PM, Comic_Sans_MS said:

Some of the newer, latitude are fucking awful in every way (don't even have a dock port), I'm going to say very comparable to new ThinkPads, or even worse.

...Yes, the new Latitudes suck major.  I question why logistics thought buying the new ones would be a good idea, especially in a desert environment.

So far the issue I am dealing with on these new ones:  trackpads going bad really fast, NICs not pulling IPs, or the display settings going full retard when one to two monitors hooked in, especially off of KVM switches.  Also, no dock port....I want to smack the peep for coming up with the idea of buying ones without dock ports.

 

So far, a lot of these new laptops are crap.

 

On the Lenovo, yeah, I rather mess with an older one.  Not waste near two grand for crap new one.