P1 gen 7, the end of an era

[TinkerMan]

saw yesterday the announcement about the p1 gen 7, and i was terribly disappointed, there are no physical buttons to be used with the track-point.
I just wonder why did they keep the trackpoint, since now, with no physical buttons it is barely functional.

RIP physical buttons

[TPFanatic]

Is the button pad not an option like on the Carbon? I’d love to try out one of these haptics for myself, the one on my iphone masquerades well enough. Considering Lenovo’s page still showcases the new p16v and p14s with buttons I doubt they are gone for good.

[RealBlackStuff]

Lenovo = Fruitcopy.

[TinkerMan]

Is the button pad not an option like on the Carbon? I’d love to try out one of these haptics for myself, the one on my iphone masquerades well enough. Considering Lenovo’s page still showcases the new p16v and p14s with buttons I doubt they are gone for good.

its not one on all models, thats for sure, at least not yet, but the P14s and all the 14 inch models and smaller format models, like the 13 incgers too, if im not mistaking, have no SD card reader, the P1 series was the only slim fully loaded models as far as connectors go. I cannot like with a laptop who doesnt have at least 2 usb A and an sd card reader, i cannot work with it.
and the 16 inches and especially the 17 inchers are way to big and heavy. I am really mourning here the loss of the "classic": P1, they butchered it.

[Ibthink]

I just wonder why did they keep the trackpoint, since now, with no physical buttons it is barely functional.

The top of the haptic trackpad is clickable and provides the same function as the dedicated TrackPoint buttons. You even have the small dots there for the middle button. So the function of the TrackPoint is preserved (thats not to say that the haptic buttons will provide the same level of comfort - it will give you a different user experience from the classic design for sure).

Is the button pad not an option like on the Carbon? I’d love to try out one of these haptics for myself, the one on my iphone masquerades well enough. Considering Lenovo’s page still showcases the new p16v and p14s with buttons I doubt they are gone for good.

They have the classic design as an option on the X1 Carbon Gen 12, but not on the new ThinkPad P1 Gen 7.