![]() It has a dish because your finger is curved, so it has a self-centering quality. It has that curve at the bottom edge that actually makes it less likely to make a typing error. You can tell.Įven the keys have a unique shape, and that’s for a reason – you can type better on them. So, even though we’ve squeezed all of this way down, we’ve changed a lot about the keyboard, for instance, it still is a ThinkPad. So, it kind of had this personality, and the three colors were kind of playful – and it suggested the fact there was a color display. ![]() Also, at the time, it was a nice contrast to the stark geometry of this box. Why do we do it? First off, who would change it at this point? You’d have to be kind of stupid. We’re the only company that puts our logo off-center. It has this jaunty stamp in the corner that says ‘ThinkPad’. It still has this mysterious quality to the outside. It was also incredibly efficient, as everything that goes into a laptop is generally square.Įven though dimensions and things have changed, primarily in thickness, I think it still has the spirit, the essence of what it is to be a ThinkPad – it’s just the measure is different. The keyboard, if you recall, lifted up all of the components inside – like a bento box. ![]() He wanted ThinkPad to be this black box that you would look at and say, ‘what’s that?’ He was fascinated by this concept that an object was simple when you were not using it and complex when you were. ![]()
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