ThinkPads are justly famous for their great keyboards. I could quibble that this
one’s A-through-apostrophe-key span is an eighth of an inch shy of the
regulation 8 inches, but I confess I didn’t notice until I reached for my ruler.
Otherwise, the layout makes typing a pleasure. The key feel is a bit shallow but
snappy, with all the features we like, such as dedicated Home, End, Page Up,
and Page Down keys; inverted-T cursor arrows; large Shift and Backspace keys;
and not-too-small Escape and Delete keys. (The Alt and Control keys to the
right of the space bar are downsized, but that is a modest concern.)
The F10 and F11 keys answer and reject or hang up on conference calls in Skype
for Business and Microsoft Teams. If you can’t get used to the Fn and Control
keys being in each other’s places at bottom left, the supplied Lenovo Vantage
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security. Both the buttonless touchpad and the three-button TrackPoint cursor
controller work smoothly and surely.
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otherwise adequate, contrast is good, and viewing angles are wide. Colors don’t
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resolution permits. Unlike many touch screens, the Lenovo’s touch-input panel
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