The Edge 15 I ordered for my mom (to replace an aging G40) arrived about a half hour ago. First impression: Oooh, shiny! Sexy red cover. The keyboard and bottom are still black, which I (and she) won't care about, but some folks will.
Cute, the dot on the "i" in "ThinkPad" is an LED. Power connector is on right side not rear; this may be good for tight quarters, not sure. At full brightness, display is almost painfully bright. (This is true of my wife's T500, too.) This is not a bad thing. The F keys are small, across sthe top, and have hardware functions (mute, etc.) in white, with "F1" et al. in rec and smaller. This is not so good. There's a Windows key, though no right-click Windows key (context menu key, whatever you want to call it). PgUp and PgDn are under the right SHIFT key, and are slightly indented. This might be good, not sure. Ins/Del/Home/End are at top right, in a row after the F keys. ESC is where &deity intended it to be, at top left. Mouse buttons are large; Trackpad is HUGE. Since I don't use it, I don't care. There's no lid latch -- just friction. No ThinkLight. Keyboard seems OK; time will tell (I have a bunch of setup to do on this before I deliver it to her). Keys have (tiny) plastic between them -- this may reduce hair/crumb infiltration, not sure. Speakers are at bottom of screen (on screen panel, i.e., facing you when screen is open), between the hinges. Audio seems decent for a laptop. Otherwise I'm mostly just fighting with Windows 7; been using XP too long, habits die hard. But I have yet to hang the wee beastie such that a hard reboot is required, which is an improvement over the last Windows 7 machine (T410) I set up (two in the first hour)! Fingerprint reader seems more reliable than my T61, i.e., fewer misses. Might just be that my finger is a better degree of dryness/oiliness than when I set up the T61, of course. Will post more when I've had more time with the machine. ...phsiii _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
