![]() ![]() Hate Your Soulless Office Tower? Blame The Seagram Building by Martin C.What laptop is the most loved, and maybe the most famous laptop in the world? Which laptop went into space? Which laptop won over 300 design awards? I’m sure many of you will be thinking of something made by Apple, but the truth of the matter is that we’re talking about something else: IBM’s ThinkPad. The Case Against Open Design Competitions by Kriston Capps What Champions Of Urban Density Get Wrong by Inga Saffron It’s Time For The Minimalist Poster Trend To Die by John Brownlee But silly ThinkPad fans just complained about that, too!) (Though, okay, okay, the ThinkPad Sapper designed in 2012 was a real looker. And as comfortable as rubbing that old red nub might be, it’s time for ThinkPad users to think bigger, to push Lenovo to make a true, spiritual successor that’s worthy of the name 25 years later. We have many more options than we used to. We have IR cameras that can see your gestures in air. We have touchpads and touch screens that can distinguish how many fingers you’re clicking with. Sapper’s design was unparalleled in 1992, but times have changed. ![]() Lenovo catered to user demands and changed things back this year. When the company toyed with this design in 2014–not even daring to eliminate TrackPoint, but to consolidate its left and right mouse buttons into one long bar–the company was accused of sodomy, became the subject of messageboard rants, and was disgraced on YouTube. It’s ludicrous, but there’s a reason Lenovo has done this. ![]() Yes, that means there are two complete mouse setups on the ThinkPads of today. The ThinkPad of today accommodates all of the old school TrackPoint users by keeping that red nub in the keyboard, and it also has a trackpad beneath because trackpads are what 99% of laptop users would prefer to use. Because decades of hardware innovations have come and gone, opening up all sorts of new ways to build and control a laptop. Lenovo purchased the ThinkPad brand from IBM in 2005, and to this day it has a loyal following that will wax poetic about its durability and timeless design. ![]()
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