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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

IBM on Tuesday will unveil two prototype ThinkPad notebook PCs, designed to illustrate how laptops could be more comfortable for everyday use. IBM designers, envisioning the next generation of the ...

IBM's ThinkPad notebook turned 10 on Saturday, a milestone for what has become one of the most successful products and brand names in computing history. Although IBM has seen its market share and ...

I am literally as old as the ThinkPad. When I was born in 1992, that's when floppy disks seemed high-tech, and when Microsoft Windows 3.1 was latest OS on the market. That's also when the first IBM ...

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 ...