Lenovoblogs article on IPS displays

[gator]

http://www.lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/?p=75

A very honest post from Matt, but he ends the article with an intriguing statement (emphasis mine):

I know a lot of you want to know about whether high resolution displays will be available on the next generation of products. Unfortunately I can’t comment on unannounced product, but I can say that we are committed to offering high-resolution, high-quality choices for our customers. We’re also looking at LED backlighting technology as well, but that has its own issues to solve. I’ll save a post on that for another time.

What do you speculate is coming down the line? Hey Lenovo, what do you have in store for us?

[beeblebrox]

There is nothing to speculate about, because it is just a generic marketing phrase. No information, no statement.
This is only marketing Bingo.
Of course they want to offer the best for their customers, who wouldn't?
Yep, LED backlight (everyone is looking for it now), high quality displays (no comment here, he would get into trouble saying the opposite)...

Frankly speaking these Lenovo Blogs are a joke.
They do not offer any really useful information and these blogs give a hint about the internal state of Lenovo.

I think Lenovo has lost their path to the future and they are not sure what exactly to do to stay competitive against aggressive HP and Acer.

With every respect, but would a serious designer blog about his first great design of a boring Lenovo 3000, which looked like a Uniwill Cheapbook?
Only after the press had completely disqualified the notebook they came out with a new one with some curves and a silver lid. How original!
Now they boast about their silver tops and curved lines. It looks like a noname, Toshiba, Gateway, you name it.

Still they are not sure how to deal with innovation. A long blog about that stupid wireless switch, or the boring cubicles where Thinkpads used to be designed?

Since Richard Sapper designed the Thinkpad, the current designers have been sleeping deeply. Thinkpad design has not changed in 15 years, and on their first own Lenovo design they just develop a cheap generic Thinkpad clone.
Apple certainly is loughing. Even HP with its new DV6000/9000 series has Really Attractively Fresh designs. HP sales numbers speak volumes, and kicked Dell's butt.

Same with the displays. For heaven's sake, but any good purchase manager worth his salary would have hurried up developping a plan B to get high quality displays on time.

It has been known for years that 4:3 displays are going the Dodo and that those IPS screens will become extinct due to low production volumes.

If I think about innovation, I just need to look at this loaner MacBook Pro that I am typing on (TP is broken again... bad USB ports, as usual)

Magnetic power plug, SD card reader, nice built-in camera for video conferencing, interesting slot-in drive and this magnificent screen (!!). All in a super-slim attractive package. I start to sound like in those Mac commercials.

If only I had the Thinkpad keyboard on it... I would seriously think to switch...

[Torque]

If I think about innovation, I just need to look at this loaner MacBook Pro that I am typing on (TP is broken again... bad USB ports, as usual)

Magnetic power plug, SD card reader, nice built-in camera for video conferencing, interesting slot-in drive and this magnificent screen (!!). All in a super-slim attractive package. I start to sound like in those Mac commercials.

If only I had the Thinkpad keyboard on it... I would seriously think to switch...

I switched from Thinkpads to a Macbook Pro some seven months ago, and just recently sold it and bought a new T60.

The Macbook Pro does have some nice innovations. I liked the MagSafe connector and backlit keyboard. I didn't find the slot drive very good. It's nice not having to push out a tray, but the slot drive sounds like it's breaking every time it loads or ejects a CD. The camera? Well, that was fun for the first ten minutes I used it - of course different people have different needs, I just didnt need it. It's a very good sales gimmick, though. The screen was brigter than the 14,1" screen on my previous T41p, T43 and present T60 - but it's also very grainy. The coating (mine was matte) was very poor, and this is a common issue with alot of the 15,4" MBP's. Backlit keyboard was great in dim light conditions, but the keyboard itself is awful, just awful.

The slim design of the MBP is also nice. However, the aluminium case is built like an exoskeleton, in which the components are mounted. The small space makes for poor absorbsion of forces. So whatever you do to the exterior, goes right into the components. An Apple technicion actually told me this was a problem.
My MBP (over six months) went in for a new motherboard, slot-drive, keyboard, DC I/O module. I hated it at the end, and ended up going back.

But yes, the magnetic connector and backlit keyboard would be nice on a Thinkpad. The Thinklight isn't too bad though.

I didn't know the MBP had an SD-card reader? Mine didn't.

[pianowizard]

I didn't know the MBP had an SD-card reader? Mine didn't.

Even my 2-year-old Dell Inspiron 6000 has an SD Card reader. My 24" Dell 2407WFP monitor also has one. Very convenient.

[Kyocera]

This discussion is now posted in a great sticky created in the t60 forum, so therefore I am locking this thread, please continue the discussion there, thanks.