Subj : and the 7 row ThinkPad keyboard
To   : Andrew Leary
From : August Abolins
Date : Fri Mar 25 2022 09:01:00

Hello Andrew Leary!

** On Friday 25.03.22 - 00:20, Andrew Leary wrote to Sean Dennis:

 SD>> I'd love to get a last-generation IBM Thinkpad.  I miss
 SD>> those great keyboards.

 AL> I've got a W520, which was the last model before they
 AL> changed to the new keyboards.  Intel Core i7, USB 3.0
 AL> support, and the 7 row ThinkPad keyboard.

That's the machine I probably should have settled for the  
T540p.  But.. I was focused on having a keyborad with a built- 
in numeric keypad.  I do a lot of numerical entries.  Now, I  
see that I could have just as well added a USB numeric keypad.

The single-key design for Alt-LEFT-Arrow and Alt-RIGHT-Arrow  
for going back and forth on browser pages is very handy too.

The T540p also replaces the fine 4 button touch-pad with a  
single tilting design.  It sticks and feels weird.


 AL> I wouldn't mind finding a ThinkPad 25 (the 25th
 AL> anniversary edition where they brought back the 7 row
 AL> keyboard,) but those are extremely rare and expensive.

I did not hear of that one. WHEN was it released? 2017?

$1899 @lenovo.  Hmmmm..  not too bad.  I paid around $900 for  
my refurbished T540p on Jan 2020, pre-covid.  It's an i5  
2.6Ghz, 1TB SSD + DVD/RW.   I really wanted and needed the  
built-in DVD/RW too.
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  ../|ug

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