Lenovo’s new ThinkPad X230 keyboard is creating quite a stir. For the first time, the 12″ ultraportable X200 series is ditching its classic ThinkPad keyboard in favor of a more modern island-style ...
It doesn’t have buckling springs, Cherry blues, or even the wonderful if forgotten Alps switches, but the keyboard found in ThinkPads has the best keyboard action of any laptop around. They would make ...
[Frank Adams] liked the keyboard on his Lenovo ThinkPad T61 so much that he decided to design an adapter so he could use it over USB with the Teensy microcontroller. He got the Trackpoint working, and ...
The Lenovo ThinkPad X100e and ThinkPad Edge 13 have a completely new keyboard design. For the first time, Lenovo is using a chiclet, or island-style keyboard. Lenovo likes to call it an isolation ...
The Lenovo ThinkPad TrackPoint Keyboard II ($85.99) takes the ThinkPad experience back to its Japanese minimalist roots. Inspired by the simple design of Bento lunch boxes, distinctive black ThinkPad ...
ThinkPads have long set the gold standard for laptop keyboards, but recent Lenovo laptop models and leaked photos of upcoming ThinkPads indicate the legendary, classic ThinkPad keyboards are being ...
When it comes to laptops, the focus is mostly on portability. As such, certain compromises need to be made, such as with the keyboard where they tend to be slim and offer up low travel when pressing ...
The ThinkPad TrackPoint Keyboard II features the same keycaps, typing distance, actuation force, scissor switches, tactile feedback, and mouse-free TrackPoint as the ThinkPad notebooks, but repackages ...
No tilde (~) key! Tilde (~) key instead of a Menu key! The Delete key is in the upper righthand corner, where Backspace used to be! Home and End are where Caps Lock used to be! *The top of the ...
The Lenovo ThinkPad TrackPoint Keyboard II ($85.99) takes the ThinkPad experience back to its Japanese minimalist roots. Inspired by the simple design of Bento lunch boxes, distinctive black ThinkPad ...
If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. The ThinkPad mouse nub — i.e., the TrackPoint — is a controversial piece of technology. People tend ...
The early ThinkPad 'ThinkPad 701' released in 1995 housed an 11.5-inch keyboard in a 9.7-inch case. Technology editor Harry McCracken explains how it was housed and why it was designed like this. The ...