Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 3rd Jan 2008 23:05 UTC
Lenovo is undertaking an Olympic-size effort to establish itself as a consumer PC brand. The Chinese PC maker has found great success with the iconic ThinkPad brand of commercial laptops, a business it purchased from IBM. And now it's taking the world stage with a new line of consumer-focused notebooks called IdeaPad. There will also be a desktop line called IdeaCentre.
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2006-10-08
The keyboard is still one of the weakes parts of notebooks. Their mechanical quality usually is bad, their layout sometimes stupid, and space in line 1 is occupied by "idiot keys" that nobody (except very few advanced users) really use, causing the space bar to shrink. But still, the keyboard is very important because it is the undoubted most important means of data entry, so it's important for the dialog with the machine.
Another point is the integrated mouse implementation. I always liked the concept of the trackpoint, when three (and not only lousy two) mouse buttons were available.
IBM impressed me with their concepts how they handled both of them ("idiot keys" small and up to the top, trackpoint and glidepad present), and I would like to see Lenovo building notebooks that are a joy to use with Linux and UNIX OSes, but this requires certain features, for example good hardware that is supported by standard drivers or that is documented properly (best solution: release open specifications and drivers). Devides that are present should work the way they are intended to (e. g. SD card reader should be standard DA compatible, hibernation / sleep mode and awakening should work correctly). And it should be silent, of course. :-)
If Lenovo would build such a machine, let's say, with no "idiot keys", with a trackpoint with three mouse buttons, that is ready to run, hmmm... FreeBSD... then I would be happy to order one of these.