On getting Lenovo to listen regarding 7-row keyboards

[Frotz]

Sometime last year someone said something about the only thing that would convince Lenovo to offer 7-row keyboards again would be for some big buyer to want 15,000 of them. I was thinking that perhaps we could get at least 1000 to put down money towards something like this. I'm thinking of a Kickstarter sort of thing and a deal with Lenovo to agree to do this if we come up with the money. Is this reasonable? Who would be the person at Lenovo to talk to regarding this?

[BillMorrow]

maybe mark can lead y'all in the right direction..
Mark@Lenovo
I have not yet seen one of the new style keyboards so i'm no one to remark but other seasoned thinkpad guru's have and most are with you..

[Puppy]

15,000 of them.

The number probably comes from the famous post http://blog.lenovo.com/perspectives/dis ... ange-again about IPS displays. I don't think that anything can convince Lenovo to bring useful keyboard layout back. Especially if there are basic design flaws like this one http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=112273 without any reponse from Lenovo. They just don't care. ThinkPad as a workstation is dead