Comments on: Lenovo ponders a ThinkPad business-class netbook

By: Antonio

Antonio — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:49:20 +0000

Dell had or has a laptop with a trackpoint, but it sucked when I used it. Trackpoint has always been the way to go, but when Dell implemented it, it wasn't on par with IBM/Lenovo.

By: Antonio

Antonio — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:49:20 +0000

Dell had or has a laptop with a trackpoint, but it sucked when I used it. Trackpoint has always been the way to go, but when Dell implemented it, it wasn't on par with IBM/Lenovo.

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 28 May 2009 04:41:04 +0000

Must have a trackpoint or it is not a ThinkPad. I cannot understand why Lenovo has not offered either a ThinkPad or IdeaPad with a trackpoint. What an exclusive! If it is a ThinkPad it should be configured for both the business or consumer user.

By: SteveE

SteveE — Mon, 25 May 2009 03:38:53 +0000

Lenovo is the only vendor of non-spastic keyboards, even a reduced-key ThinkPad keyboard would be more productive than anything produced by the other manufacturers. Productive users (not web surfers) CRAVE the TrackPoint – ALL touchpads are silly, almost as bad as a mouse. How can anyone want to life their hands off the keyboard, and then call themselves “productive”. I can't code that way. We really need a ThinkPad Netbook with the TrackPoint. How they could skip that in their first Netbook model is a mystery. I'd buy one right this minute, IF, it had a TrackPoint!

By: zima

zima — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:06:30 +0000

Which is more like ~$1000 in many places. Plus extended battery…which, because of overkill hardware, still doesn't give the battery time ultraportable should have.

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By: Canada

Canada — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:16:12 +0000

yeah, or simply get an x61s for ~$550…

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By: ToniBorgetto

ToniBorgetto — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:16:41 +0000

The trackpoint could also easily help solve the so-called “Bezel-Madness” (huge masses of plastic around the display).

I suspect a main reason for all the useless plastic is that you need to have space for the touchpad (which is still ridiculously small in many cases). So you have to make the case horizontally larger than necessary, which would be ok with a 4:3 display, but not for widescreen 16:10 or 16:9.

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By: zima

zima — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:56:21 +0000

Same here… Lenovo, give me something on “netbook-grade” cpu/etc. (almost nobody needs more when on the go…) but in the form close to X61/etc. (nvm great keyboard and clit; imagine…extended 9-cell battery with Atom) and I'm getting it the first day it's available.

By: DougC3

DougC3 — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:26:09 +0000

The x61s is only 0.2 inches wider than an Eee 1000HE and it has a 12 inch screen. If Lenovo keeps the 0.4″ bezel on a netbook they could easily squeeze in an 11 inch screen or bigger (granted, the extra vertical pixels of the x61s account for some of that 12 inch measurement).

And I concur that the TrackPoint could not be more appropriate for a netbook. In fact, let's face it: The X series is the granddaddy of the netbook.

By: oddone

oddone — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:52:20 +0000

I'll gladly add my voice to the chorus here. Make it live up to the name and legacy that is ThinkPad, and Lenovo should have no problem selling these at all.

By: Chris Yeh

Chris Yeh — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:20:46 +0000

I have been gnashing my teeth because I can't stand trackpads. Please let this rumor come to fruition.