Closed, it looks pretty much like any other laptop manufactured in 1995. To be sure, it’s more compact than most—making it, in the parlance of the day, a subnotebook. But it’s still comically thick, ...

No tilde (~) key! Tilde (~) key instead of a Menu key! The Delete key is in the upper righthand corner, where Backspace used to be! Home and End are where Caps Lock used to be! *The top of the ...

IBM's ThinkPad has been one of the most iconic names in the laptop market and its keyboard is just as memorable both for its quality as well as its red nub. Some fans love that keyboard to the point ...

The early ThinkPad 'ThinkPad 701' released in 1995 housed an 11.5-inch keyboard in a 9.7-inch case. Technology editor Harry McCracken explains how it was housed and why it was designed like this. The ...

Lenovo’s new ThinkPad X230 keyboard is creating quite a stir. For the first time, the 12″ ultraportable X200 series is ditching its classic ThinkPad keyboard in favor of a more modern island-style ...

Lenovo is celebrating 25 years of the IBM ThinkPad laptops, which were first released in 1992, with the special-edition ThinkPad 25. The 25th anniversary edition of the ThinkPad is essentially a ...

The little red Trackpoint nubbin has been a fixture of ThinkPad-branded laptops since 1992, but I never knew until recently that both IBM and Lenovo made standalone mechanical keyboards with this ...

The IBM ThinkPad X series has always been a rock-solid ultraportable for any businessperson on the move. The X41 ($1,899 direct), the latest model from Lenovo/IBM, changes very little, though it now ...

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. The ThinkPad mouse nub — i.e., the TrackPoint — is a controversial piece of technology. People tend ...

I've pretty much decided that my next upgrade is going to be Helix 2 with Ultrabook Pro keyboard, and according to this review of an early sample, it's back to an almost-normal layout; the only things ...