Lenovo Shows New Thinkpad and Thinkpad Ultrabook

Why Lenovos always so ugly...?

Because it is used by beautiful people?

Well they look semi-professional, my ASUS N53SN looks more professional though and it's a fairly beefy entertainment laptop.

I agree. I like how they are not following the MBA style.

Have you ever seen Lenovo's Ideapads ?
and Have you ever tried dropping a Thinkpad ?

If you had done any of those, you wouldn't had said that

What's with the chicklet-style keyboard ?

Don't they understand that one of the key selling points of their thinkpad line is the great keyboard ? Of course, I am talking about the only 3 series that are still faithful to their thinkpad origins, the X, W and T series. The others have become plastic crap, although for the price they are being offered for they are great alternatives to their competition because of their thinkpad software treatment and ironically the keyboard.

The big question is, will they have the thinkpad rollcage ? And brushed alluminum can go grind himself, magnesium alloy all the way.

Is the X1 considered an Ultrabook? It looks very similar to the T430u..

God that thing is ugly. Compared to the samsung, acer, asus ultra books this one looks 10 years old. Count me out.

as far as I know, the more expensive models will have the rollcage,




because you can spill water on them, drop them from the ceiling, step on them and they still wouldn't break......
Once you tried a thinkpad, you wouldn't want another type of notebook

These are X and T series.

"feature set of a traditional notebook with that of netbook"

Isn't a 'netbook' simply a very stripped down laptop?
If so, how do you 'combine' what features ?

Or am I missing something here ?

Lenovo Thinkpad are some of the best looking laptop out there. That is why business people get them (plus support, built quality, and features) because they look professional, not some cheap shiny plastic like toshiba, dell, gateway, hp (Dell business laptop looks like Thinkpad). I other good looking laptop are Sony Vaio, which designs are modern like apple. I do have a thinkpad and vaio, so my eyes are drawn to them.

Though the W520 I have may be the last ThinkPad I buy if the chiclet keyboard of the T430u ships standard, and an option to install a half-decent keyboard disappears.


The X1 Hybrid, though, sounds cool, but its glossy screen (yeah, I know it's Gorilla Glass but still) and chiclet keyboard put it right out.

The instant-on feature's nice, but it's sort of redundant since mobile OS aren't designed to do actual work.

Then again, neither are Ultrabooks.

Extended battery options?

I have never understood why this trend caught on with laptops. Every one that I have used with the chicklet keyboard has seriously effected my typing. To each his own I guess.

The chicklet-style keyboard is designed to save space. It is thinner.

I don't get all the hating...i've got a lenovo with chicklet keyboard and it is easier to type on then the regular ones. i type just as fast on that as i do on a desktop with an ergonomic keyboard that i've had years to get used to...

Assuming it's up to normal thinkpad build standards, I'd love this machine. And to all the comments about ugly...I like the look, and I've dropped a couple of my thinkpads out the back of my work truck over the years, always a 3-4 ft drop, while ON, and never anything more than a scratch or slight sliver of plastic falling off. Never a broken screen like a few co-workers and their crapple products.

Because they're used for doing work and not for looking cool in a coffeehouse.

Yup, abuse an Asus, Acer or Samsung the same as lenovo, for 6 month and then, tell me which one wouldn't look like 10 years old machine.

I don't care much about the design of Lenovos, because they used to be some tough business machines. The T430 might carry on with the previous 400 models but I've seen a X1 live and this thing is by far not worth the money on buidling quality.

I've never seen a Lenovo X that is that crappy and fragile on the outside. If you want a Lenovo X stay with the 200 or 300 series, they're almost as light and feel a lot more stabile.

For thin think pads, that is kind of the reason... But Lenovo does a bit better job than others. But these are not true "chicklet" keys... Those were rubber keys, usually a single slab poking through the holes. The worst were the flat plastic "keyboard" which had keys drawn on them: early 80s like the Atari 400 or Odyssey2.

Anyways... For tiny net books, etc it makes sense. But for your typical notebook, they suck. They do Look better, stylish... I think apple started it. Worse are desktop keyboards doing the same thing... But are kind of required for lit keyboards.

The current regular think pads like the T400/T500 series have awesome keyboards. Great feel and almost a perfect layout. Pretty much everyone else makes flat keys... They are cheaper too and far easier to break, which warranty won't cover.

Ugly? I think they look great. Not like typical generic HP apple wanna be designs. Even today's Thinkpads are among the toughest notebooks you can buy. Spill your drink, you won't fry your it. Their mainstream models have real keyboards, non glossy displays (unlike the crap you get with everyone else), a roll cage (they drove over a T400s with a truck). The support is far better than HP and dell. And they don't load the notebooks up with crapware.

I have an old r61 and x200. Thinkpad is the only thing I recommend and sell to clients.

Lenovos Ideapad line is their consumer series... Which look modern, flashy with the usual glossy screen and flat keys... They cost a bit less, look great but without many of the Thinkpad features.

Overall, ultra books beg to be damaged. I don't think the T4X0s series is worth the cost over a normal T400 series.