Thinkpad 30th Anniversary

[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.

[MikalE]

Hard pass. What good is it without the original 7 row keyboard?

[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!

[theterminator93]

Nope. X1 isn't my speed anyway.

Looks like my T480 FrankenPad is going to have to last me a long time!!

[axur-delmeria]

Low-effort cash grab.

I really need to stock up on any Trackpoint keyboard I can get my hands on...

[dr_st]

Low-effort cash grab.

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.

[axur-delmeria]

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!

[H-Atkinson]

Low-effort cash grab.

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.

[dr_st]

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.

[kony]

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.