Call it something other than a ThinkPad... Meanwhile I'm just here trying to get my TeX Yoda II repaired after water spilled on it. Single best I/O device I have ever owned. https://tex.com.tw/products/yoda-ii
I guess I can't say I blame them though. Most people these days don't even know how a trackpoint is meant to be used effectively (i.e. by making aggressive use of mouse acceleration to rough-center the cursor in the area of the screen you want it and then fine tuning).
Lenovo builds a very wide range of laptops and this one is just pirating the ThinkPad moniker severely harming the Thinkpad brand name's reputation. A real Thinkpad by default needs to have a trackpoint to be considered one. If it doesn't have a trackpoint it's not a Thinkpad. Just ignore this and keep to the real Thinkpads.
Not sure if this is new but also notice the keyboard style has changed? Seems more like MacBook style with very low Key Travel ( 1mm ). Sigh I remember Thinkpad and SurfaceBook was the only few sticking to 1.5mm Key Travel.
Oh no. That’s the biggest reason why I just bought another ThinkPad instead of a comparable other brand.
Well, then there's no point (heh) in buying one.
It looks fake to me.
But if true, it's not a real thinkpad then.
As someone who used to be a huge Thinkpad fan/user, the Thinkpad brand is dead.
I liked Thinkpads because of trackpoint, linux support, quality builds. 2/3 of those are gone. Linux support is still there, but even the higher end builds have shotty quality at this point. I wanted a quality tool to do quality work.
I switched to mac with the arm conversion. Quality builds with Unix support. Once Aasahi is fully functional, the world will be complete.
The moment the track point is gone is the moment I'll stop buying them.
Obviously, that's one sale, but I'm pretty sure we are a large'ish group. There are, after all, not many vendors offering a track point today, so it is a differentiating factor, and we a captive audience.
Between that and occasionally screwy Linux support, I wonder what their thinking is. Sever all their unique markets and compete evenly against everyone else ? Do they feel Windows offers enough to avoid bleeding sales to Apple ? And what? They feel so confident in what's left of the Thinkpad that they have no reason to fear other vendors ? Interesting. Maybe they know better, but I'd be concerned if I held their stock