ThinkPad in Silver - Original from IBM !!!

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beeblebrox · #1 Post by **beeblebrox** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 1:42 pm

I can't believe it, but it is true.

Original IBM. Silver metallic.

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie ... 41159&rd=1

benplaut · #2 Post by **benplaut** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 2:17 pm

anyone read german?

i'm dying to know what it says...

even though... for a collector's item, ~$700 isn't all that much...

i still prefer black...

Zeitgeist · #3 Post by **Zeitgeist** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 3:00 pm

bplaut wrote:anyone read german?

i'm dying to know what it says...

even though... for a collector's item, ~$700 isn't all that much...

i still prefer black...

Well, it gives only the technical data, the head line reads:

"Very rare model in silver metallic look for collectors and lovers (?). Only at ebay only one time, very rare. Thinkpad notebooks are normally in black. This rare model is not and was not for sale in Germany. 100 % working & nice to look at."

In other words, only blabla.

stgreek · #4 Post by **stgreek** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 3:33 pm

...which means that most likely they have disassembled and painted the body silver. It is possible to do (I believe lilserenity had her 560Z as green) but I cannot see why someone would want a non-black Thinkpad...

dr.b · #5 Post by **dr.b** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 3:45 pm

hm
first: the picture on the top and the other pictures are not from the same thinkpad.
And it looks more bleached than silver....i think it is a kind of "to long in the sun without any lotion"-modell

Kenn · #6 Post by **Kenn** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 4:01 pm

Looks kind of like a pale trauma patient who has lost a lot of blood

z.entropic · #7 Post by **z.entropic** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 6:35 pm

the metal cover plates over the memory and processor compartments on the backside of my T23 are also pretty silver-metallic--the black paint peeled off in sheets with just a bit of help on my part

i'm not sure if it increases its value, tho'...

seriously, this was a lousy piece of engineering by ibm.

z.entropic

Highline · #8 Post by **Highline** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 6:35 pm

I am not too keen on the silver look. The black is what makes TP's so unique....!

beeblebrox · #9 Post by **beeblebrox** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 5:13 am

Yes, interesting, isn't it? Never saw silver, only white.

This is original IBM. Silver metallic plastics material. Original mold, not painted.
Exactly the same as all black ThinkPads, but silver material.

This iSeries was produced and sold in Japan only. Like the 535 (10") series or the piano black iS30/S31.

I once had a colleage from Japan on visit, and he had a white thinkpad x30. Well, that was very beautiful. Like a white cookie box.

Very similar to that piano black, glossy X30 for the 10th anniversary of Thinkpads.

z.entropic · #10 Post by **z.entropic** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 9:51 pm

beeblebrox wrote:I once had a colleage from Japan on visit, and he had a white thinkpad x30. Well, that was very beautiful. Like a white cookie box.

Our Japanese friends seem to appreciate (and buy) gadgetry much more than us, don't they? I'm alwasy amazed by the number of apparently useless 'features' in their consumer electronics devices. Sometimes, they seem outright childish in their preferences--not that I care one way or another, I'm just amazed...

z.entropic

beeblebrox · #11 Post by **beeblebrox** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 4:28 am

Well, in terms of useless gadgets I think about tamagochis.

However, why not have beautifully designed Thinkpads for the female parts of business executives?
Samsung, Sony etc. sell by their looks.

And the white or black glossy Thinkpads were a hit among the female crowd. Looked like a high end Apple iMac.

#12 Post by **JaneL** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 7:51 am

.However, why not have beautifully designed Thinkpads for the female parts of business executives?
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"The female parts of business executives"? If you mean women, they are the ones who understand the concept of classic elegance and the little black dress that can go anywhere...

Kenn · #13 Post by **Kenn** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 9:28 am

nonny wrote:.However, why not have beautifully designed Thinkpads for the female parts of business executives?
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"The female parts of business executives"? If you mean women, they are the ones who understand the concept of classic elegance and the little black dress that can go anywhere...

Actually, I'd have throw in my $0.02 and say that this is an all-too simplified and dismissive generalization. I've talked to so many women who are issued thinkpads and actually say thinks like "I like the thinkpad, but it's so plain," and "It makes me look like an accountant" that I do not believe you can say something like "women appreciate understated elegance" and believe that is the end of the story. If TPs were offered in ipod-mini-like colors, every woman TP owner I know would be all over it (also notice that Apple has done more than anyone in consumer tech to target and cater to women, and "classic elegance black" is not even a standard color for ipods outside of the u2 edition). I'd bet that if there's any reason women execs choose black, it's so they don't seem frou-frou and delegitimized in a boardroom full of type-A, not-a-place-for-women male execs. After all, black really is just one color out of thousands.

But I won't purport to speak for women outside of what some have actually told me. Whether thinkpads stay black or go rainbow doesn't matter to me, as long as they stay light, tough, professional, and keep that great IBM customer service

Edward Mendelson · #14 Post by **Edward Mendelson** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 2:12 pm

Look closely at the keyboard in the pictures and you'll see that it's a Japanese keyboard - exactly confirming what Beeblebrox said.

#15 Post by **daeojkim** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 2:57 pm

Kenn wrote: After all, black really is just one color out of thousands.

Actually black is a mix of every color..

Kenn · #16 Post by **Kenn** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 3:02 pm

daeojkim wrote:
Kenn wrote: After all, black really is just one color out of thousands.
Actually black is a mix of every color..

Actually, I think that's white. Remember the prism expermient?

However, now that I'm thinking, would that make black an absence of any color?

#17 Post by **daeojkim** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 3:13 pm

Kenn wrote:
daeojkim wrote: Actually black is a mix of every color..
Actually, I think that's white. Remember the prism expermient?

However, now that I'm thinking, would that make black an absence of any color?

Well if you mix all the wavelengths of visible light then you get white.
If you mix all paints of all colors you will get black.

The way you see a certain color is that the object that you are seeing is absorbing all wavelength of color except the color that you are seeing. e.g. a green object is absorbing all but green, which is reflected and detected by your rod cells in your eyes.

So they way we see a black color is because that object is absorbing all the lights that are shined to it, so no light bounces back to your eyes, thus black.
So black is a mix of every color, and white is technically no color at all.

Leeper · #18 Post by **Leeper** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 5:23 pm

That color is the color IBM uses for pre-release units while they are testing the plastics.

We have had a bunch over the years in what I would call a mid-gray tone, by the time the units ship in produciton form they are back to classic Thinkpad black.

FrankK-F · #19 Post by **FrankK-F** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 11:18 pm

After all, black really is just one color out of thousands.

Since we live in the digital realm ... BLACK is [0,0,0] in RGB definition .. thus the absence of color. WHITE is [255,255,255] the maximum intensiity of the primary colors.

This however does not my TP 'colorless' .. it is just that the black 'color' does not distract from the task at hand .. work.

That is how I see it.

Frank K-F
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