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blog.lenovo.com is the company blog at blog.lenovo.com, writing about hardware and design. Since 2012, 44 different Hacker News readers have linked it 55 times, most often “ThinkPad Time Machine? Retro Thinkpad: Opinions”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Rarely recommended · 0 of 33 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Lenovo's official blog posts on ThinkPad design, keyboards, displays and retro ThinkPad surveys, usually as sources or evidence for their own points rather than as praised writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 33 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- ThinkPad Time Machine? Retro Thinkpad: Opinions7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2015-06-25
- /perspectives/display-ratio-change-again3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-03-02
- ThinkPad Time Machine?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-06-25
- Retro ThinkPad: It’s Alive3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-06-21
- Retro ThinkPad Survey 4: Miscellaneous3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-08-01
- The Industrial Design of Lenovo's X1 Carbon2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-06-12
- /design/thinkpad-x1-designing-the-ultimate-keyboard2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-05-04
- /products/why-you-should-give-in-to-the-new-thinkpad-keyboard2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-08-18
What Hacker News says?
I've been very happy with my Dell Precision M3800 which has outstanding build quality, easily comparable to my previous MacBook, and runs Ubuntu perfectly. In fact I like it better hardware-wise than the macbooks because it has a much more pleasant keyboard-surround surface, which is not freezing cold like my MacBook, nor does it have that unpleasant vertical front leading edge which in my opinion is uncomfortable w…
Comment linking /en/blog/retro-thinkpad-time-to-think
on “We Need a Better PC”Submitted Lenovo unveils new ThinkPad design as a story · 93 points
HN discussionThis I don't get either. Having an 1920 x 1200 monitor is nice of course but I am not getting bent into pretzels if the Anniversary 25 is "just" 1920 x 1080 or some other 16:9 res. I have a T420s hacked to full HD (someone else did the hacking) and frankly, it's fine to this day, six years in. Looking into the far future, it won't be enough because the 16GB RAM will limit and it would be awfully nice to have Thunder…
Comment linking /en/blog/retro-thinkpad-survey-keyboard
on “Thinkpad X62”Submitted Retro ThinkPad: It’s Alive as a story · 88 points
HN discussionI don't want to get your hopes up too high, but there are positive signs that Lenovo is listening to what ThinkPad users want. There were a number of surveys started last year (and that may still be open) for feedback on a retro ThinkPad. http://blog.lenovo.com/en/blog/retro-thinkpad-survey-4-misce...
Comment linking /en/blog/retro-thinkpad-survey-4-miscellaneous/
on “Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?”- mo · 2015-06-25
Submitted ThinkPad Time Machine? Retro Thinkpad: Opinions as a story · 37 points
HN discussion * IBM ThinkPad T41p/60. Lenovo T410/X210 where still somewhat fine. But these newer ultrabooks nowadays have less powerful specs than 5 year old notebooks. The Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon isn't bad, but a far cry given it's ultrabook less powerful specs than an 5 year old high end notebook. And these shitty keyboard nowadays, give me back the old keyboard layout like grouped F1-F12 key, better placed Home/PgUp/PgDn/En…
Comment linking /en/blog/retro-thinkpad-time-machine/
on “Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?”Submitted Lenovo Considering a Retro ThinkPad Model as a story · 29 points
HN discussionLenovo laptops have had a bios setting since 2010 that lets you swap the fn & ctrl keys. That doesn't swap the keycaps though. Some history of the placement and many comments http://blog.lenovo.com/en/blog/fn-versus-ctrl-let-the-games-... A series of posts where they asked for feedback, then acted on it. Thinking about changing the key configuration http://blog.lenovo.com/en/blog/switch-mode-for-fn-ctrl-keys They de…
Comment linking /en/blog/switch-mode-for-fn-ctrl-keys-start-up
on “Dell XPS 13 Review”Submitted Lenovo announces new ThinkPad P series mobile workstations as a story · 23 points
HN discussionI think Jony Ive lifted an entire industry and perhaps a generation to “good design” (and brought a lot more attention to Dieter Rams[0][1][2]). That we’re here talking about it (for the 3rd(?) time on HN front page) is a testament to that. That said, I think humans got lost in the process, at least occasionally, but not just recently. I don’t recall which models, but sometime the MacBooks adopted really sharp edges…
Comment linking /en/blog/the-japanese-essence-in-thinkpad-bento-boxes
on “Jony Ive is departing Apple, but he started leaving years ago”Submitted ThinkPad Time Machine? as a story · 13 points
HN discussion> Then a period of claiming that nobody was willing to make IPS panels at an economical price which Apple proceeded to prove to be a lie. Here's Lenovo's blog post about that from 2007: http://blog.lenovo.com/en/blog/ips-displays
Comment linking /en/blog/ips-displays
on “Used ThinkPad Buyer's Guide”Submitted Retro ThinkPad Survey 3: What’s Under the Hood? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionthe veep of design at Lenovo has publicly considered building a “retro” Thinkpad (with modern circuitry of course) — http://blog.lenovo.com/en/blog/retro-thinkpad-time-machine/
Comment linking /en/blog/retro-thinkpad-time-machine/
on “The Jason Bourne Aesthetic”Submitted The Industrial Design of Lenovo's X1 Carbon as a story · 6 points
HN discussionBut consumers did not choose 16:9 over 16:10, because consumers cannot tell the difference. We can thank TV panels for that switch: LENOVO: "Again, we can thank the LCD manufacturers for this change. By cutting everything in the same aspect ratio, they have less waste per large sheet of glass. Since these manufacturers make more selling TV displays than laptop displays, the PC vendors have almost zero say in this ch…
Comment linking /perspectives/display-ratio-change-again
on “1366×768px overtakes 1024×768px as the most popular screen resolution worldwide”Submitted Weigh in on Retro Thinkpad as a story · 5 points
HN discussionHopefully mainstream manufacturers will adopt some specs, e.g. Thinkpad Retro, http://blog.lenovo.com/en/blog/retro-thinkpad-survey-2-displ...
Comment linking /en/blog/retro-thinkpad-survey-2-displays-keyboard/
on “Purism – Privacy-Respecting Laptops”Submitted Richard Sapper and the Origins of the ThinkPad Keyboard (2013) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThinkpad x220 running TLP with extended battery covers all day (sometimes 7AM to 9PM) of browsing and CLion & PyCharm. I'm a student so the only time it's not being used heavily is when I'm walking from class to class. As the other comment said I get about 5W draw in powertop. All I've done is install TLP as the other comment says. Something else you can do if you'd like to get a huge boon for battery life is get a…
Comment linking /en/blog/all-day-long-all-day-strong-our-new-x220-slice-battery
on “My search for a MacBook Pro alternative”Submitted Retro ThinkPad Survey 4: Miscellaneous as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIf you haven't seen the "think-light" yet -- FN-PgUp. Bottom Left and Top Right buttons activate the light -- makes it easier to find in the dark. http://blog.lenovo.com/design/fn-versus-ctrl-let-the-games-b...
Comment linking /design/fn-versus-ctrl-let-the-games-begin
on “Keyboard innovation is making them worse”Submitted ThinkPad Time Machine? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI can't wait to hear from the PC laptop manufacturers after the iPad 3 is released. How can Apple release a 2048x1536 (10 inch!) iPad when laptop OEMs have been claiming for years that 4:3 screens are DEAD? And that 768 vertical pixels is about the max we'll ever get on smaller screens? ThinkPad: "Since these manufacturers make more selling TV displays than laptop displays, the PC vendors have almost zero say in thi…
Comment linking /perspectives/display-ratio-change-again
on “iPads using iOS 6, high-res displays showing up in Ars server logs”Submitted The Origins of The ThinkPad Keyboard as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI bought my first ThinkPad (the classic ThinkPad 600) in 1998. I immediately decided it was wonderful and swore I'd never use another brand of computer again. There was a time after that when they just kept getting better and better: the A30p with a beautiful 1600x1200 IPS display, and then that same display in the slimmed-down and faster T60p. I also bought a bunch of old beaters to use as test machines and what no…
Comment linking /products/why-you-should-give-in-to-the-new-thinkpad-keyboard
on “Happy 20th Birthday, IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad”Submitted Richard Sapper & The Origins of The ThinkPad Keyboard as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHaven't tried it yet, but it's a risky departure from the previous long-standing design (and it applies to all of their models being released this year - i.e. the previous 7-row layout is history). They seem to be taking the redesign seriously though - some more information on their blog: http://blog.lenovo.com/design/thinkpad-x1-designing-the-ulti... My worry is that they've moved the page/up down keys quite illogi…
Comment linking /design/thinkpad-x1-designing-the-ultimate-keyboard
on “Customizing the Mac to behave like Xmonad”Submitted The Hallowed Supercomputer That Does 13,677 Trillion Operations a Second as a story · 2 points
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