Lenovo loses the sucky screen crown to HP

I couldn't help but laugh a little inside when I saw this review of the HP. Looks like HP managed to oust and become major of Sucky Screen City.

See AnandTech - HP EliteBook 8460p: Everything But The Screen

Way to go HP. Lenovo needed some competition.

 

lol what an atrocious screen, heck I thought my Latitude 13 screen was bad..

 

I am note sure whether to cheer that Lenovo isn't holding the crown anymore or to shake my head because of the current trend in cheap display on semi-premium machines.

 

However, I wonder if the 1600 x 900 display option is better than what Lenovo uses: The displays all come from the same factories.

John

 

Chiclet keyboard + business laptop = does not compute, IMHO.

That's even before one gets to the screen.

 

Why do you think so? Business users presumably handle more documents translating to more keyboard usage.. All that matters is the the keyboard is comfortable. And the chiclets, especially on the lenovos are phenomenal. And tey look pretty good too.

 

Agree santhosh on parts about the keyboard. I agree that the chicklet keyboard on Lenovo are great, however it is missing a couple of feature that Traditional Thinkpad keyboards has, mainly the 7 row key layout and the drainage hole for water spillage. It seem that with clever engineering you drainage could be overcome like it is on the X!. Hopefully that feature will be inherit by all the Thinkpad with the chicklet keyboard.

Look like the screen might be the same as the T420, the contrast for the T420 is around the same number.

 

As I said, IMHO. This is personal, but I want some travel in the keys on my keyboard. Very few chiclet keyboards come close to being comfortable for me.

One of many reasons I buy the ThinkPad T-Series line is because of keyboard design. As a number of people know, I'm a curmudgeon who loves his early 90's IBM Model-M keyboard on the desktop; the T-Series comes the closest to replicating this experience. Chiclet keyboards usually do not, and I've rarely seen a design with the quality necessary for a business laptop.

 

I look forward to trying the X1 keyboard soon. I'll decide then.

 

They obviously haven't seen the screen that came with with my new e420s! Noticed that IBM/Lenovo was absent from all of the comparison charts.
Honestly this thinkpad screen is the worst screen i've ever seen on a notebook. Its hard to imagine anything new to the market looking worse. My 4 year old budget Hp lappy screen blows it out of the water. Well at least now i know why i couldnt find any thinkpads on display locally and why lenovo charges the high restocking fees. lol

 

Am I thinking of the same Model M? The T-series keyboards are nothing like the buckling spring Ms! Still, they are excellent keyboards -- the feel may change from generation to generation, but it is consistently excellent.

 

Only until the Radiance display comes back though.

 

They don't have the hard "click" feel of a buckling spring. However, ThinkPads still have the most consistently decent key-feel of any laptops I've used, and are still the closest in quality of any mobile device I've worked with. Well, other than the Compaq Portable III.



The T60 keyboard is the best I've had of the ThinkPads I've used (I briefly owned a T60 before selling it, and swapped keyboards with my T400 prior to sale so I could keep that keyboard on my T400). I like the improvements to the power/volume/mute on the T420, though. Previously, you couldn't tell whether the audio was muted on your ThinkPad until you woke your system up from sleep; the change lets me know if the audio is off before I log in to avoid the startup chime in a quiet environment. They have a better feel than the small silver buttons of the earlier keyboards as well. Typing action is still good; just not quite as good as the T60.