Notebookcheck had the chance to talk with Michael Weigelt (Business Development Manager) from Lenovo Germany for the launch of the new ThinkPad X1 Nano. In addition to the X1 Nano, we also talked about the ThinkPad X1-series and ThinkPads in general.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Notebookcheck-Interview-with-Lenovo-Germany-about-the-new-ThinkPad-X1-Nano.522754.0.html
God I hope they never get rid of the TrackPoint. That'll be the end of ThinkPad for me.
Already soldered RAM and reduced key travel is preventing me from buying some of the more compact lighter ThinkPads
I will always choose practical and functional over "beautiful".
This article shows that most of the current higherups and sales managers at lenovo dont understand who their core thinkpad customer is.
Bring back 7 row keyboard, 16x10 screen, replaceable battery and lots of ports.
Call it ThicPad if your marketing department doesn't want it in the same family.
Listen to your customers not the branding department.
Thinkpads have really fallen downhill in quality haven't they.
- compromised keyboard across the board
- smaller batteries across the board
- soldered down components across the board
- cheap materials in anything other than X1, even on T and P series
- still no good QHD display option
- still bad speakers, microphone and webcam across the board
- more expensive upgrades than ever
- WWAN, NFC and IR options lacking in many models
- outdated cooling solution that can't handle chipsets that are getting exponentially more powerful and punching way above their power limits
- somehow even worse customer service than a decade before
At this point, the Thinkpad brand is not attracting any new customers, just barely sustaining its existing corporate and loyal fan userbases.
What a shame.
Good to see that top product related decision makers at Lenovo are losing touch with what the customer want: AMD Ryzen 9 5980HS + RTX 3060 Max-Q in a 15" ThinkPad.
The Legion 7 series will replace my X1 Extreme this year even though I'll miss the 1.8mm ThinkPad keyboard a bit.