Lenovo unveils new ThinkPad design

yeah, people still use vga ports. and when you plug a projector into them, they actually work the first time! even with linux! crazy, i know.

until recently, in our office, the only person whose laptop always worked right with the various projectors was the guy with linux on a thinkpad. macbooks with displayports were reliably unreliable. now the situation has reversed, because the new thinkpads are x1 carbons w/ displayports, and for the macs we hooked up an apple tv to the projector and use AirPlay, which behaves much, much better than the cable ever did.

This drives me mad. At least Lenovo kept the buttons. Other laptops like Apple and now Dell have dropped them entirely. And for what? "Minimalism" or "elegance" I guess. I'm going to have to hang on to my aging Dell for as long as I can, just for the keyboard :(

I can't believe they call out rotating the logo as a new feature.

And yet the 13" screen on the 11" body (tiny bezel) Dell XPS still has a higher-res screen than this 14" screen. WAKE UP LENOVO, I really wanted to have a hard decision when choosing to replace my Macbook Air, but I guess the XPS 13 is an easy choice. Your X1 Carbon is equally gorgeous with an equally crappy screen.

Now if only any store anywhere carried the Chromebook Pixel so I could check it out...

edit: After more reading, rumor has it of a retina MBA 2013. Maybe I'll wait it out.

I absolutely despise the removal of the trackpoint buttons. If I wanted a Mac, I'd buy a fucking Mac.

Whatever happened to not alienating long time thinkpad users?