Lenovo has been enshittifying ThinkPads and then walking back their bad decisions when people won't stop bitching, ever since they bought the brand from IBM. They've tried:
> Removing the trackpoint buttons altogether (walked that back)
> Switching from 16:10 to 16:9 (walked that back)
> For some reason, moving the fan exhaust to the right side instead of the left (made people's hands hot when using a mouse so they walked that back)
I'm surprised the bigger news regarding this laptop isn't just how ugly the thing is. It looks like one of those huge $200 Toshiba laptops you'd see at Wal-Mart in 2010. I can't even begin to imagine how much money Lenovo has wasted on changing their tooling to spite customers and then changing it back when they realize they need customers, almost every generation.
> How many times do we need to teach you this lesson, old man?!?
Is there a picture of it closed? The tab sticking out for the camera. I want to see what it looks like, closed. I have concerns about finger prints on the
lens, despite them making affordances to discourage it.
> Removing the trackpoint buttons altogether (walked that back)
> Switching from 16:10 to 16:9 (walked that back)
> For some reason, moving the fan exhaust to the right side instead of the left (made people's hands hot when using a mouse so they walked that back)
I'm surprised the bigger news regarding this laptop isn't just how ugly the thing is. It looks like one of those huge $200 Toshiba laptops you'd see at Wal-Mart in 2010. I can't even begin to imagine how much money Lenovo has wasted on changing their tooling to spite customers and then changing it back when they realize they need customers, almost every generation.
> How many times do we need to teach you this lesson, old man?!?