Lenovo teases White Moonlight ThinkPad with precision-crafted design and a strong emphasis on visual identity.

Compared to the latest ThinkPad X1 Carbon On how ThinkPad’s design efficiency compares to a certain key rival’s. That efficiency still is relevant to us in the world of computer design.

But because I reviewed the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition after Lenovo announced its TrackPoint-less X9 Aura Edition at CES 2025, it became much more than a laptop. It’s tech history.

The Lenovo ThinkPad X9 Aura Edition being showed off at CES 2025 lacks the iconic TrackPoint nub in a nod to a new, modern design that includes Lenovo AI Now.

You’ll find the iconic red Trackpoint on just about every ThinkPad laptop available, but Lenovo is doing away with the design at CES 2025 with its new ThinkPad X9.

The TrackPoint served as an alternative to the traditional mouse. The TrackPoint burst onto the scene in 1992 with the release of the IBM ThinkPad 700C laptop, which was originally designed as a ...

If you’re an old-school ThinkPad fan, Lenovo has done the unthinkable: The ThinkPad X9 14 doesn’t have the famous red TrackPoint in the center of the keyboard. The nubbin is a hallmark of ...

The IBM (and now Lenovo) ThinkPad TrackPoint — aka the mouse nub — is one of the more controversial input methods. Love it or hate it, it tried to offer a better, faster way to use a computer ...

And being a ThinkPad, it has the TrackPoint. Or the nub, the nipple, or whatever else you want to call it. After all, the ThinkPad is 30 years old , and this is one of its defining features across ...

Longtime ThinkPad users and newcomers alike will feel right at home with the TrackPoint Keyboard II. As you might expect from a ThinkPad keyboard, typing is comfortable and accommodating.

Lenovo came to CES 2025 to prove that there’s still room in its ThinkPad family for fresh designs. It may seem sacrilegious to ditch the carbon fiber frames and Trackpoint nubs found in classic ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Those who didn’t come up in the professional world during IBM’s heyday, yet work on one ...