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mnezor · #1 Post by **mnezor** » Wed May 02, 2007 2:45 pm

... Why those Think(g)s are so adorable ? !

I mean I really love to work with my R60.. when I don't work I like to stair on it!...

.. Maybe is the black beauty , or the excellent keyboard... or the solid construction ... or the quality SXGA+ monitor... or the IBM logo in the corner... or the excellent ThinkVantage software ... or .... well whats your opinion ... do you have the same symptoms with me

#2 Post by **jdhurst** » Wed May 02, 2007 3:05 pm

I think the black case (with the black part of it, not painted on) lends an air of understated elegance.

Look at the lid fit. It makes for a proper and complete unit when closed. Look at a Dell beside it: It looks like Curly designed the base, Larry designed the lid, and Moe put the paint on it all.

Then the Thinkpad has always just been a quality unit, so having IBM on it never hurt. Lenovo has yet to earn those stripes, so they need to protect quality at all costs.

... JDH

#3 Post by **jdhurst** » Thu May 03, 2007 6:06 pm

No answers. Did anyone pick up on the reference? ... JDH

Purcy · #4 Post by **Purcy** » Thu May 03, 2007 6:40 pm

jdhurst wrote: Look at a Dell beside it: It looks like Curly designed the base, Larry designed the lid, and Moe put the paint on it all.

I just got a real big chuckle out of this

#5 Post by **jdhurst** » Thu May 03, 2007 6:50 pm

Our experience is showing !

... JDH

#6 Post by **K. Eng** » Fri May 04, 2007 8:30 pm

ThinkPads look nice because their design is clean and functional. There's no superfluous plastic material, and no weird lines or colors (some Acer and Dell models).

#7 Post by **ryengineer** » Fri May 04, 2007 8:38 pm

Well, for me when I look at notebooks other than Thinkpads, they all look too candy like and fancy to me.

On the other hand, Thinkpads seem simple, solemn and more business machines.

pianowizard · #8 Post by **pianowizard** » Sat May 05, 2007 8:06 am

How much time do you guys spend admiring the looks of your Thinkpads? I mean just looking and admiring. I have been doing that to my T60 once or twice a week ever since I got it in January 2007. I used to look at my X-series Thinkpads even more often, especially the X2*'s. It's amazing that a laptop can still be so pleasing to the eye after I've owned about 40 of them!

In contrast, while I love the WUXGA screen of my current Dell Inspiron, I don't think I've spent more than a minute visually admiring the laptop since I got it last November!

#9 Post by **ryengineer** » Sat May 05, 2007 9:06 am

pianowizard wrote:How much time do you guys spend admiring the looks of your Thinkpads? I mean just looking and admiring. I have been doing that to my T60 once or twice a week ever since I got it in January 2007.

While I'm working I can't think of admiring it honestly, but I do as much as I can many times a week, when I get some alone time from my wife.

#10 Post by **BillMorrow** » Mon May 07, 2007 3:09 am

understated elegance..
no nonsense.. all business..

and typing on a thinkpad is a joy..
the feel of the keyboard is, well, IMO perfect..

dsigma6 · #11 Post by **dsigma6** » Mon May 07, 2007 12:48 pm

ThinkPads end up looking odd (because of their uniqueness) next to other laptops, and extra tiny. A Dell with a 14.1" screen looks 1/3 bigger than a TPad with the same size. I love it.

zahir · #12 Post by **zahir** » Tue May 08, 2007 3:01 am

i love the...
1. full keyboard
2. sexy titanium cold feel
3. weight!
4. Battery life...
5. sexy white night light
6. above all, the corporate yet very very attractive cut black looks..... sexy back? sexy black!!!

Fusion · #13 Post by **Fusion** » Tue May 08, 2007 10:57 am

I must agree

anthean · #14 Post by **anthean** » Tue May 08, 2007 11:18 am

I bought my Thinkpad for two reasons:

1. Its durability (my brother said his T40 was built like a tank)
2. Its elegant, no-nonsense appearance.

Plus, I really have a dislike for silver colored plastic notebooks. Apple's powerbooks set a design standard, and many other notebook manufacturers tried to follow. But rather than mimic Apple's choice of a magnesium or aluminum chassis and good build quality, other manufacturers instead chose to use metallic colored plastic and crappy build quality. I was appalled.

But not IBM. IBM stuck with traditional black. When I learned that the chassis was carbon fibre (CFRP ?) and the display magnesium, well, that sold me.

#15 Post by **BillMorrow** » Tue May 08, 2007 11:58 am

speaking of tanks, the military kind of tanks, pre-war army guys would tell me the 770 series was "built like a tank" and this was coming from guys familiar with tanks..

#16 Post by **gator** » Tue May 08, 2007 12:14 pm

Well, look at the 770! With a chassis like that, I would be surprised if it was not a tank!

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snessiram · #17 Post by **snessiram** » Tue May 08, 2007 2:05 pm

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I love the thinkpad's outside too. It's just the going together from simpleness yet completeness with subtile additions (the red on the trackpoint for example). The beautiful plain black is also so much nicer to look at then the crappy grey-plastic-looking stuff from other manufactures (and the worst is when they mingle several materials).

#18 Post by **JaneL** » Tue May 08, 2007 2:33 pm

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I used to do that, but people never seemed to learn from it.

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Yes, I bought my Thinkpad because of its appearance

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