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It's been a long time coming, but we may finally be moving toward a future where Lenovo's retro ThinkPad is available at retail. Such a notebook has been tossed around for years at this point, but ...

In 1992, I reviewed a new IBM laptop for Computer Shopper, the over-sized monster magazine of all things PC. It was the first ThinkPad, the 700C. I liked that first ThinkPad a lot. Many others did as ...

ThinkPad users got excited about Lenovo's idea to produce a new "ThinkPad Classic" that would provide all the best features of this long-running premium brand. But with the results of the second ...

Lenovo's Vice President of Corporate Identity and Design David Hill teases a retro-inspired ThinkPad notebook. And the crowd goes wild. The design language originated back in 1992 by designer Richard ...

Lenovo’s design chief has come up with a wacky idea for the ThinkPad—so wacky, it just might work. The basic concept is to create an upcoming ThinkPad with design points from the original IBM ThinkPad ...

Lenovo design VP David Hill has a dream: a dream of blue enter keys, seven-row keyboards, and status LEDs. In other words, he wants to bring classic ThinkPad design DNA back from the era of IBM and ...

The original IBM ThinkPad 700c first hit the market 23 years ago, offering a now-classic design, with seven rows of keys and a blue enter key, all of which are still missed by many tech enthusiasts.

We've reported on a few occasions that Lenovo is working on a retro throwback laptop that channels some of the looks and cool features that ThinkPad fans of yore will remember fondly. Fast forward a ...

Originally hailing from Troy, Ohio, Ry Crist is a writer, a text-based adventure connoisseur, a lover of terrible movies and an enthusiastic yet mediocre cook. A CNET editor from 2013 to 2024, Ry's ...

Last month, Lenovo teased the revival of its classic T-series line of laptops through a retro-inspired Thinkpad makeover. Although both the T-series and X-series are still in continual production and ...

It looks like David Hill, the VP of Design over at Lenovo, was hit by a wave of nostalgia recently and announced that he would like to create a brand new ThinkPad laptop with a retro twist. Inspired ...