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  • MooseMuffin - Thursday, August 30, 2018 - link

    "...aimed at business users interested in gaming and multimedia applications."

    Is that really a market?
  • JoeyJoJo123 - Thursday, August 30, 2018 - link

    I mean... I guess if you're a business whose business is about providing gaming and multimedia application services to end-user (ex: app game developer?)

    I dunno. I agree that the marketing spin here's confusing and they're just throwing in that gaming/multimedia part in for little reason than to have those extra buzzwords in there. A solid laptop with solid CPU / GPU performance will perform well (in comparison to other laptops) regardless of the process it's trying to run.
  • naturbo2000 - Thursday, August 30, 2018 - link

    I want a gaming laptop with a trackpoint.

    Thus I'm target market with only one available option.
  • heffeque - Thursday, August 30, 2018 - link

    Aren't business people allowed to play games in their laptops in their own time?
  • nathanddrews - Thursday, August 30, 2018 - link

    Usually not permitted by most IT departments that I've seen, unless you've got a friend on the inside or you're given ADM cred.
  • GiantPandaMan - Thursday, August 30, 2018 - link

    Anyone in the visual/virtual media business could use this. The video card will accelerate photoshop etc. The fact the screen is 100% AdobeRBG points to that too.
  • hanselltc - Thursday, August 30, 2018 - link

    I feel like its targeting the same market Zenbook Pros, XPS 15 and Macbook Pro is aiming at, and Lenovo's PR is just sucking.
  • Samus - Friday, August 31, 2018 - link

    Lenovo used to make the best coffee but lately the beans are burned.
  • Rookierookie - Friday, August 31, 2018 - link

    Professionals (lawyers, doctors, etc.) who use the same laptop at work and at home?
  • Hxx - Tuesday, September 4, 2018 - link

    u mean u dont do accounting work and fire up some call of duty between breaks like whats wrong with you?
  • danielfranklin - Thursday, August 30, 2018 - link

    Im very happy with this release.
    Im a Thinkpad guy who is currently using an XPS 15, this is perfect.
    Only thing i could complain about other than the Ethernet dongle would be they are doing the same tiering with the LCDs.
    Business users need 1080P, this doesnt mean we dont want a higher-end panel or touch!
    I would take the high-end panel in a second if i could, unfortunately scaling is not perfect and there is no way i can make my work setup/workflow work with it...
  • Valantar - Friday, August 31, 2018 - link

    Have to agree with you on the display argument here. "Want 1080p? Okay, but then you won't get touch, and your color gamut will be crap" is basically strong-arming people into the 4k upgrade. Given that I'm happy with 1440p on my 27" desktop, I see no need for 4k on a laptop, especially when it'll cut 10-20% off my battery life. Heck, I'd even pay nearly the same for a high-end 1080p panel as the 4k one, really.
  • timecop1818 - Thursday, August 30, 2018 - link

    So extreme it lacks separate Home/PgUp/PgDown/End keys. So fucking sick of the macintosh-influenced garbage arrow key setup. I thought thinkpad was for smart people.
  • Gc - Friday, August 31, 2018 - link

    In the picture, the arrow keys are not quite full height, but they are larger than half height and take up more than a row. The Home and End keys are to the right of the F12 key. The page-up and page-down keys are on either side of the up-arrow key.

    A complaint might be that it pushes the right 'Ctrl' key to the left, so I have to bend my wrist upward in order for my pinky to reach it. That seems harder to do than when 'Ctrl' is under the left end of the right shift key and I could reach it with my pinky by bending my wrist rightward.
    It also pushes the left arrow key further down, below the level of the control key, so I bend my wrist more to avoid moving my whole arm when correcting a quick typo. (Increased wrist bending increases the tension and friction on the hand tendons that go through the wrist, and increase the chances of repetitive stress injury.)
  • Valantar - Friday, August 31, 2018 - link

    As Gc pointed out here, you're wrong. Home and End are next to F12, as is Insert and Delete. PgUp and PgDn are above the right and left arrow keys respectively. I have zero issues using this layout, at least.
  • GreenThumb - Sunday, September 2, 2018 - link

    Lifelong thinkpad user. I tried to switch to a late 2016 MacBookPro and couldn't for 2 reasons: 1) Lack of dedicated PageUp, PageDn key. It is bizarre that there's no consistent key or way to page up or page down across apps. I installed BetterTouchTool to remap my right side Command, Option keys to Page up, Page down. It works in some apps. Not in others. 2) Finder. It's at least twice as slow (more keystrokes, more mousing around) to use Finder vs File Mgr when accessing and updating dozens of files per day across 3-4 projects. So many more keystrokes to do the same thing. I still haven't figured out how to paste file paths in the Finder address bar. I asked at the Apple Store. They said to ask on Reddit. I do use a MBP for personal use though. I love the silky smooth mousepad and beautiful screen.

    Am using a Thinkpad T470 for work now. At least it still has the dedicated PageUp,PageDown key
    https://www.laptopkeyboard.com/keyboards/lenovo/th...

    But his is the best laptop keyboard ever for productivity:
    PageUp,PageDown and Home,End right where you'd expect it
    https://www.laptopkeyboard.com/keyboards/lenovo/th...
  • nicolaim - Tuesday, September 4, 2018 - link

    Have you tried Karabiner Elements to remap the keys?
  • jvl - Friday, August 31, 2018 - link

    > GbE Native, with a dongle
    Oh, really? xD
  • GreenThumb - Sunday, September 2, 2018 - link

    re: "Keep in mind that the Core i9-8950HK does not support Intel’s vPro technology, so laptops based on these chips will lack certain features of notebooks running various Core i7 CPUs."

    What features does that mean the i9 Thinkpad X1 Extreme would lack?
  • GreenThumb - Sunday, September 2, 2018 - link

    edit to my comment below:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_vPro#vPro_feat...

    Those features seem significant. Why would a higher numbered and therefore presumably faster / better processor not support vPro?

    Does the i9 include vPro features built-in?
  • Topweasel - Wednesday, September 5, 2018 - link

    Same reason K CPU's didn't have VM exentions for a long time. They made a choice that the i9 options were gamer chips. Gamer chips don't need VPro. Therefore lets not give it to them. This is getting really really tiring. There is no reason to make this choice since vpro isn't driven by CPU used but platform used. I get choices like ECC where support may exist but not validated because of target market. But actively disabling features specially on more expensive products just because the target market has been deemed to have little use for it is really nerve wracking.
  • nicolaim - Tuesday, September 4, 2018 - link

    Text says two USB type-A, table says type-C.
  • gw74 - Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - link

    how many lanes do the TB3 ports have? you should include this info as default

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