Happy Birthday ThinkPad
Yep, 19 years ago it happened:
ThinkPads have been praised for exceptional build quality, system reliability, services and design throughout their decade and a half of presence in the consumer market.[8] The original design was a collaboration between Tom Hardy, corporate head of the IBM Design Program, Italian-based designer Richard Sapper (noted for the design of classic products such as the Tizio lamp for Artemide, office chair for Knoll, kitchenwares for Alessi and ballpoint for Lamy) and Kazuhiko Yamazaki, lead notebook designer at IBM’s Yamato Design Center in Japan.[8][9] Sapper proposed a design inspired by theShōkadō bentō, a traditional black-lacquered Japanese lunch box.[8][10]
If there’d be no ThinkPad’s, I believe I would switch to Mac long time ago, as it’s hard to find so durable laptop on the market.
Original from Andrey Vystavkin Blog.