Page 1 of 1
Thinkpad 30th Anniversary
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2022 8:37 am
by H-Atkinson
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Leak-Leno ... 758.0.html
Looks like the T25 is going to remain unique, for better or worse. Back to the re-badged prosumer model strategy for the 30AE.
Re: Thinkpad 30th Anniversary
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2022 9:05 am
by MikalE
Hard pass. What good is it without the original 7 row keyboard?
Re: Thinkpad 30th Anniversary
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2022 11:59 am
by RealBlackStuff
Not to mention the awful rip-off price of well over $4,000.-
They aim for a max. of 9,999 units.
Count me out, LeNONO!
Re: Thinkpad 30th Anniversary
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2022 8:55 pm
by theterminator93
Nope. X1 isn't my speed anyway.
Looks like my T480 FrankenPad is going to have to last me a long time!!
Re: Thinkpad 30th Anniversary
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2022 12:03 am
by axur-delmeria
Low-effort cash grab.
I really need to stock up on any Trackpoint keyboard I can get my hands on...
Re: Thinkpad 30th Anniversary
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2022 2:15 am
by dr_st
That's what they said about the Thinkpad 25 too. This one is even lower effort. It's nothing but a different logo sticker and packaging.
Re: Thinkpad 30th Anniversary
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2022 3:30 am
by axur-delmeria
dr_st wrote: ↑Sat Oct 01, 2022 2:15 am
That's what they said about the Thinkpad 25 too. This one is even lower effort. It's nothing but a different logo sticker and packaging.
Let me rephrase it then:
no-effort cash grab!
Re: Thinkpad 30th Anniversary
Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2022 10:33 am
by H-Atkinson
dr_st wrote: ↑Sat Oct 01, 2022 2:15 am
That's what they said about the Thinkpad 25 too. This one is even lower effort. It's nothing but a different logo sticker and packaging.
T25 was called low effort for other reasons. I'd personally describe it as wasted potential more than low-effort, but people called it low-effort since they offered 1 config (2 if you count WWAN cards as a "config difference," which I don't). I'm still perplexed that they spent the money to develop an entirely new 7-row keyboard only to use it in 1 model. The 7-row had nothing in common with any other Lenovo keyboards. Keycaps were completely new, scissors were modified from the **70 boards, domes were unique, and electrically it remains unique. The trackpoint is physically different from any other trackpoint despite being electrically identical to the **70/80 offering. They did all of this, just to make a single bodge-job of a T470 palmrest to stick it into. It would have been very little effort to put the same keyboard into a whole host of other models. But that never happened.
This thing is low-effort because its an X1 Carbon with some silkscreened branding and a fancy box. Its not wasted potential, its just a cashgrab.
Re: Thinkpad 30th Anniversary
Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2022 12:18 pm
by dr_st
H-Atkinson wrote: ↑Thu Oct 27, 2022 10:33 am
It would have been very little effort to put the same keyboard into a whole host of other models.
That's exactly what I suggested. Apparently that wasn't convincing.
Re: Thinkpad 30th Anniversary
Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2023 8:19 am
by kony
dr_st wrote: ↑Thu Oct 27, 2022 12:18 pm
H-Atkinson wrote: ↑Thu Oct 27, 2022 10:33 am
It would have been very little effort to put the same keyboard into a whole host of other models.
That's exactly what I suggested. Apparently that wasn't convincing. :|
Probably no interest from corporate world, so not worth the effort. Individual buyers are irrelevant, especially when they have no such choice with competition either.