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Happy 20th Birthday, IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad

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Re: Happy 20th Birthday, IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad

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Post by mhd »

I much prefer the black plastic + magnesium alloy frame to e.g. Apple's aluminum/unibody design. Can take some punishment, without actually showing it. Wish Apple would've stuck with their earlier PowerBook/iBook G3 aesthetic (then again, I do admit liking the toilet lid iBooks, so maybe I'm not the right person to judge these things).

Re: Happy 20th Birthday, IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad

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Post by bafjohnson »

My father worked for IBM for his whole career - and as I was growing up there were always a number of Thinkpads in the house right from the 700C.

They were amazing, well made pieces of hardware and to this day I have kept buying them through the years and currently have a Thinkpad X220 (i7 CPU, 16GB RAM). The sad fact is that it now gets so little use compared to my MacBook Air.

Why is that? Purely because I prefer OS X.

Happy Birthday Thinkpad - I'm sorry I have deserted you.

Re: Happy 20th Birthday, IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad

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Post by tedunangst »

Symmetry wrote: post #8
alrs wrote: post #5

Only a few more years now before the patents run out on the trackpoint, at which point it will be "reimagined" by Apple.

Is that why so few other laptops have them? Well, I'm looking forward to it.

For a time Dells came with them. I have a Fujitsu that has a stick. Then suddenly they stopped making them. I think the patent is available to license, companies have chosen not to license it for whatever reason. It's not like there aren't patents associated with touchpads.
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