CNet Article by Arimasa Naitoh

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doppelfish · #1 Post by **doppelfish** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 8:07 am

CNet has an interesting article wherein Arimasa Naitoh, apparently the father of the ThinkPad, now worldvide VP of development at Lenovo, gives his opinions for the future development of laptops. Enjoy!

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hrdc69 · #2 Post by **hrdc69** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 10:42 am

A link to the article would help

Mod EDIT: The two places with blue text are links.

#3 Post by **daeojkim** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 11:59 pm

hmm.. the link is not working for me.

Thinkpaddict · #4 Post by **Thinkpaddict** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 1:44 am

Thanks for the article link. Too bad the article itself is too short.

That concept design #1 is very similar to (if not the same as) another Thinkpad concept picture I saw a few years ago. I for one would welcome it if they ever put it into production, since one of the problems with laptops as far as ergonomy goes is how low the screen sits with respect to the user. It also sort of brings memories of another Thinkpad "transformer", the 701 series with the butterfly keyboard. Ah, memories.

christopher_wolf · #5 Post by **christopher_wolf** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 1:50 am

Thinkpaddict wrote:It also sort of brings memories of another Thinkpad "transformer", the 701 series with the butterfly keyboard. Ah, memories.

I <3 my 701c and T43.

That brings to mind the Transformers!

Thinkpaddict · #6 Post by **Thinkpaddict** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 2:01 am

christopher_wolf wrote: I <3 my 701c and T43.

That brings to mind the Transformers!

Christopher,

Don't part with your 701C, don't you do it! I've been looking to get one of those in pristine condition in eBay for a while now. As well as a Transnote and a bunch of others (240, 600X, S30, etc). But the 701 has to be one of the coolest Thinkpads ever. I still remember the advertising campaign that IBM started when the thing came out, and how much I hated I didn't have enough money to get one.

christopher_wolf · #7 Post by **christopher_wolf** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 5:01 pm

It isn't parting from me at all.

If you can find one in good condition, it makes an *Awesome* ultraportable with huge, extra dose of "Cool."

Thinkpaddict · #8 Post by **Thinkpaddict** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 6:43 pm

christopher_wolf wrote:It isn't parting from me at all.

If you can find one in good condition, it makes an *Awesome* ultraportable with huge, extra dose of "Cool."

You're right. It is just a cool computer with a lot of pedigree and some good mechanical engineering thrown in. Someday I'll get my hands on one and install Linux on it just for the sake of it. I'm pretty sure you could configure a Linux installation on one of these Thinkpads to run pretty fast.

CNet Article by Arimasa Naitoh

CNet Article by Arimasa Naitoh

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