Ok, that I completely understand, thanks for the clarification. To be honest it looks to me like they put the edge series in with the Thinkpads because it was halfway between the think and idea range and they wanted the advantage of the name. But it still is tucked away in its own series, I'm not su...

Guys, I'm not quite sure what the objection is to this laptop. I see that there's dispute over the perceived 'cheapening' of the thinkpad brand, but there is, as yet, absolutely no evidence of this laptop having any real problems or lessened quality (if so I'd like to know!). As to the company tradi...