This week, the announcement of the first ThinkPad notebook will be exactly 25 years ago. Lenovo, the PC-OEM who develops ThinkPads since 2005, will host a small even on Facebook on that day - and likely announce the ThinkPad 25 there. In unrelated news, there are some new details about this model, which apparently won´t be available everywhere.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-25-will-likely-be-announced-on-October-5-only-available-in-certain-markets.253438.0.html
This looks exactly like T410/T510 keyboard.
Then my T500 is even more retro than this. :D
And no WQHD display option possible because of T470 motherboard :(
Thinkpad 25 misses the mark.
To me this seems like a poor solution to what consumers have expressed they are hoping for. It would seem they took the minimal-effort, least-resistance approach to building a product that can be sold under the "retro" tagline. The 7-row keyboard is great but it seems that's all they changed. They didn't implement a taller display aspect ratio (3:2 or 16:10) which I feel like is an important feature despite the extra cost it would carry, or status LEDs.
There is also no certainty whether it will offer 2560x1440 or whether the IPS FHD display will be an improvement over the IPS-but-low-color-gamut panel on the T470.
Quote from: edit1754 on October 02, 2017, 21:21:30
There is also no certainty whether it will offer 2560x1440
Due to hardware limitation of T470 motherboard it is impossible to use WQHD display because it lacks 4-lane eDP output :( T470s and T470p can do that only.