Comments on: Rumor: Lenovo developing its first Thinkpad netbook

By: Lenovo to launch ThinkPad Netbooks | Laptops Today

Lenovo to launch ThinkPad Netbooks | Laptops Today — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:24:53 +0000

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By: BigGoofyGuy

BigGoofyGuy — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:37:54 +0000

I prefer the 'eraser head' pointing device over just a touchpad. I have more control with it than a touch pad. It looks really nice.

By: DougC3

DougC3 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:34:24 +0000

Aha! If you follow the link, the original pics are a hair bigger, and with a healthy dose of imagination, it looks like the Delete key is third from the upper right (instead of in the upper right corner) which is very Lenovo like. Also, with the same imagination, in the bottom left, we have Fn in the corner and Ctrl to its right–a clincher for Lenovo

By: zima

zima — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:41:22 +0000

Apart from the colour (which I don't mind; and it could be even due to early prototype) it looks pretty much like any Thinkpad to me… Though the keyboard looks wrong, not very “Thinkpadish”, especially in regards to cursor keys and PageUp/Down/etc.

By: zima

zima — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:31:23 +0000

At least there's a place for webcam, right?…

But in all seriousness – I imagine it's hard to find screens other than 16:9 and 16:10 these days, so what they could do? (other than hopefully going with PixelQi for screen…)

By: zima

zima — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:29:03 +0000

Since Thinkpad extended batteries usually protrude from the back, NOT from the bottom, I don't see why they would change this…especially since it works much better.

I'm hoping it has passive cooling and PixelQi screen…

By: tomleemullins

tomleemullins — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:37:54 +0000

I prefer the 'eraser head' pointing device over just a touchpad. I have more control with it than a touch pad. It looks really nice.

By: DougC3

DougC3 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:34:24 +0000

By: Lenovo to launch ThinkPad Netbooks

Lenovo to launch ThinkPad Netbooks — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:01:21 +0000

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By: zima

zima — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:41:22 +0000

By: zima

zima — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:31:23 +0000

At least there's a place for webcam, right?…

But in all seriousness – I imagine it's hard to find screens other than 16:9 and 16:10 these days, so what they could do? (other than hopefully going with PixelQi for screen…)

By: zima

zima — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:29:03 +0000

Since Thinkpad extended batteries usually protrude from the back, NOT from the bottom, I don't see why they would change this…especially since it works much better.

I'm hoping it has passive cooling and PixelQi screen…

By: Jm

Jm — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:55:33 +0000

There is something coming from Lenovo in the ThinkPad line. About a year ago, I received an email (as a registered ThinkPad owner) to complete a survey asking questions about what I'd like to see as far as features and design in a ThinkPad branded netbook. Hopefully this isn't the result, because it looks horrible…

By: DougC3

DougC3 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:59:50 +0000

Excuse me for spamming about this, but, since they've extended the dimensions to acomodate both the TrackPoint buttons and the trackpad, it's sort of a crime to leave a big, blank bezel at the top of the screen instead of giving us another 168 pixels of screen height.

By: DougC3

DougC3 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:30:28 +0000

I think this is the real thing. The red pointing stick cap looks big in relation to the overall size, which therefore must be netbook size. Somebody could have gone to the trouble to mock up a fake, but the unit doesn't look like any netbook I've seen.

If real, I'll be very interested in this, but where will the extended battery extend? Hope it doesn't have a factory replacable built-in.