http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/ Engadget Comments for Lenovo celebrates 15 years of Thinkpad, "uncorks" Reserve Edition http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/
Good night, sweet prince. :cry:]]>Sep 5th 2007 11:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/Sep 5th 2007 11:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/Sep 5th 2007 11:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/Sep 5th 2007 11:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/
For that, I thank you IBM.]]>Sep 5th 2007 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/Sep 5th 2007 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/Sep 5th 2007 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/I loved its elegant yet simple design, the way the solid construction felt in my hands, and the keyboard most of all.
When they came out with the 1400x1050 screen I fell in love with it again.

5 years, 4 thinkpads, 3 screens later I am still a thinkpad lover... but damn those are some expensive screens to fix/replace.

Sadly, I must admit that my next notebook purchase will be a macbook pro.]]>Sep 5th 2007 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/]]>Sep 5th 2007 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/Sep 5th 2007 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/
I have two T60p machines. The first one had a keyboard that was OK but not great. In particular, the TrackPoint buttons were unpleasantly mushy. The second one I got a year later has a great keyboard with nice clicky TrackPoint buttons.

So I went to the Lenovo/IBM support site and looked up the parts manifest for both machines. The first T60p had a Chicony keyboard, the second one an Alps.

I found a couple of new Alps T60 keyboards on eBay and installed one in the old machine. Much better now.

When I used to buy desktop keyboards, I avoided Chicony like the plague. Some things never change!]]>Sep 5th 2007 12:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/Sep 5th 2007 11:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/Sep 5th 2007 11:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/Sep 5th 2007 12:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/Sep 5th 2007 12:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/
Sadly, I will be upgrading soon. The only problem with using Thinkpads is that once you use it, the only brand you'll ever consider is a Thinkpad or a MacBook. All others are just posers. While I love thinkpad, I'll be going to the Mac platform and will know at least that when using PC's, I've used the best.

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I've had a T60P now for 6 months and I have had a slew of problems (blue screens related to bogus RAM, latches not closing properly, keyboard busted, trackpoint roams). As far as I can tell, the change happened when Lenovo took over. For shame.

Honestly though, unless I hear something great about another laptop, I'll probably go with the T8x when it comes out in 3 years and this one no longer can handle the day to day stuff.]]>Sep 5th 2007 12:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/
I first started using the Thinkpad when I went to work for Lotus. For three months, I refused to use the Trackpoint on the Thinkpad I was given on day 1 -- I was simply accustomed to a mouse. After then, I decided that I'm going to be stuck with this thing, I might as well get used to it, and the more I used it, the more I liked it. It is to the point that I have an old IBM keyboard (the big one with the incredibly solid thunk) with an embedded Tracpoint on my Mac at home!

The Thinkpad, even the Lenovo-built Thinkpads, are head and shoulders above the pack, save the Macbooks. I finally "retired" my venerable A20 this year for a new Z61p. It is a sweet box.]]>Sep 5th 2007 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/Sep 5th 2007 2:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/Sep 5th 2007 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/Sep 5th 2007 2:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/22/users-complaining-of-bezel-separation-on-lenovo-x60-x61-tablet/

Gee, I hope they have fixed this...
Their Australian site, http://www.lenovo.com.au has promotions on these very models. I wonder why.

That said I do own a cheap low-end celeron Lenovo (C200 3000) which certainly has a better keyboard feel than the bulk of the competition I tried.]]>Sep 5th 2007 7:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/Sep 5th 2007 9:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/Sep 6th 2007 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/lenovo-celebrates-15-years-of-thinkpad-uncorks-reserve-editio/Sep 8th 2007 12:12AM