Our favorite laptop keyboards: Lenovo ThinkPad Edge / x100e

Our favorite laptop keyboards: Lenovo ThinkPad Edge / x100e
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The ThinkPad Edge represents a new direction for Lenovo: a redesigned raised "chiclet" keyboard for its ThinkPad products. While ThinkPad traditionalists might balk at messing with established design, the great news is that the new keyboard excels just as much in its new design. With slightly concave keys that cup the fingers and good key spacing, it was one of our favorite parts of the new budget ThinkPad line released this winter.

The Netbook-like ThinkPad x100e adopts the same keyboard design with stunning success; it manages to be both full-sized and economically compact.

Read the full review of the ThinkPad Edge.

Read the full review of the ThinkPad x100e.

April 28, 2010 10:29 AM PDT

Photo by: CNET/Sarah Tew

| Caption by: Dan Ackerman, Scott Stein

 

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