New Thinkpads or fakes?

http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/is-this-a-next-generation-thinkpad-or-the-cruelest-photoshop-th/









Personally, I like the look but hate the chiclet keys.

 

I sure hope they're fake. Hate the white trim, hate the chiclet form, hate the shape of the keys, etc etc.

 

HORRIBLY ugly… I sure hope they’re not real. This is the stuff nightmares are made of.

 

If that is where the Thinkpads are headed then I will no longer purchase Thinkpads.

 

If those are the new ThinkPads I think I might never touch another computer again and move out into the middle of a forest.

 

eh, it may be a new thinkpad series
but it isn't the new t-series
new t-series will have the t400s keyboard
so it may just be a new introduction like the sl line meant for a specific audience
if you aren't that audience, don't buy it

 

Obviously fake.

 

If that's the way thinkpads are going the my t400 will be the first and last I own. Way too flashy, and the mac/sony like keyboard would drive me nuts.

 

I think it could be a lower end (or maybe SL replacement) "ThinkPad". That keyboard is unsightly and the bezel (or bottom/sides) of the laptop is atrocious.

 

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Yea I think that too.

The build quality looks horrendous, especially that of the one in the second picture. Just look at those mouse buttons!

 

gawd that's fugly

 

Agreed. BTW- that touchpad is not big enough

 

to OP....

Son you disappoint

 

it was photoshopped, this is a macbook pro been photoshopped, nice job ha ha

 

I would have to agree.

The moment I saw these yesterday on Engadget, though, I immediately branded them as Photoshopped.

 

they're fake,

thinkpads have thinkvantage,

where's the thinkvantage button on those??

 

this guy gets 100% on photoshop.

 

Gotta go with everyone else, and say it's fake. Lenovo would lose TONS of customers if they started selling crap like that.

The looks are not sleek and sexy looking like a MacBook, and definitely not rugged and business-like with all the white. Lenovo wants to market this towards blind people?

 

That's a fake. Lenovo did not invest all it did in its keyboard and external keyboard, to then suddenly go chicklet. Come on, get real....

If you want to know about the new thinkpads, your starting point should be T400s which is basically a proving ground product as Lenovo has admitted. This means you can expect :
- slightly adjusted keyboard
- larger touchpad with gestures
- lighter, stronger chassis
- powered eSata
- and unfortunately same old blindness-inducing low-contrast screens, some of which may be touch-enabled with Win 7

To which you can add new Arrandale and Clarksfield CPUs with better integrated graphics plus a dedicated switchable GPU in higher end models

 

LOL

hilarious! i need to buy some thinkpad stickers...

 

http://www.wirelessgoodness.com/?p=1093 ?

 

thinkpad netbook perhaps?

 

Engadget picked up the story from Cloned In China, a site that reports (in English) on the shanzhai/clone industry centered in the Pearl River Delta.

Interestingly, new photos appeared today on CinC and their source, the Chinese tech portal ZOL.

To me, it's either a funky shanzhai mash-up from an anonymous factory in South China or a real ThinkPad partially disguised with a white shell...perhaps to test users' opinions?? If it isn't Lenovo, though, whoever it is did a pretty darned good job mixing & matching popular design cues.

 

A "new" ThinkPad still running on Windows XP? I think not.

 

http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/03/lenovos-rumored-thinkpad-x200e-gets-two-more-spy-spots-another/

another story about it on engadget.

it would make sense if it were a netbook.

 

Say it isn’t so! First they destroy they keyboard, then they ship with barely adequate screens and now an ugly white ThinkPad? Should we be reading the writing on the wall?!?

 

Not really. Almost all new netbooks would be running Windows 7.

 

See I have used a few older thinkpads, and I like their keyboards just as much as the one on my t400. So in my mind they didn't really kill the keyboard. Although I love my thinkpad and the screen it has, Ill agree its not as good as previous thinkpads or my dell vostro.

One thing I will say is I think Lenovo knows what to do and not to do to a thinkpad. They know there are certain credentials to being a real thinkpad and they will retain them (think positive). The flex on the keyboard is not noticeable, but even so is a sign of the market and not the destruction of the thinkpad imho.

 

Fake.

I guess the (newly leaked) 4th photo is intended to be another shot of the same laptop as the first photo. Unfortunately, the bottom of the trackpad does not match. In the first photo, the trackpad buttons stop just short of the white rim. In the 4th photo, the buttons extend all the way to the bottom.

To me, the first photo is so obviously fake (the bottom of the trackpad buttons are misaligned with the bottom of the laptop, from a bad copy-paste job) that it discredits the whole series of photos. I do not understand what everyone is so worked up about.

Edit. Lenovo does not need a new design to crash the netbook party. After the Arrandale X210(s) releases next year, simply re-release X200s with SU2300 CPU for $500. Very few netbooks can compare with the design and construction of X200s, and there is still plenty of separation between the new ThinkPads (Calpella platform) and the netbook killer (C2D-based CULV).

 

white wouldnt be that bad tbh

if the white was actually teflon

i heard teflon does wonders

 

However ckx, x200s are not cute! I speak from experience.

 

Yeah for cooking

 

looks apealing, but doesnt look like a real thinkpad.
just another sl or ideapad
doubt it carries over any of the quality of a thinkpad.