It was presumed that Lenovo’s special edition “ThinkPad 25” would be released in October for the brand’s 25th anniversary, and things appear to be on schedule: an image of the product has been posted on a Chinese notebook forum, and certification reveals that the retro laptop will be based on the ThinkPad T470. The anniversary ThinkPad is expected to have black rubberized coating, three TrackPoint caps, and the return of the original, iconic keyboard.



Lenovo can boast that modern Thinkpads have superior key travel, but professional users (such as programmers and writers) miss the old one. Over the years several other characteristic features of the Thinkpad were removed along with the seven-row keyboard such as the rubberised coating which returns for the 25th anniversary. It may be harder to reintroduce the 16:10 aspect ratio display as the industry now produces 16:9 more appropriate to watching movies – an emblem of the funification of computing.

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