ThinkPad Logo进化史,你中意那个?

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@1992年的Logo

@1992年的Logo


@1996年的Logo

@1996年的Logo

@2007年的Logo

@2008年的Logo

Much like a badge on your favorite car, ThinkPads have always sported a logo plate on the exterior LCD cover and another somewhere on the interior. Older laptops like the first ThinkPad, the 700c, had more LCD bezel than they did palm rest space, so the logo plate went their. As LCD sizes grew, their bezels shrank and the keyboard bezel/palm rest grew, making it the natural home for the interior logo plate.

You can see the progression of the logos from the original design debuted in 1992 to the current design found on all new ThinkPads. Overall there were four major “generations” of logos, with varying designs and created using different manufacturing processes.

Unsurprisingly, the original 1992 design used a high quality metal base with paint and silk printing. You just don’t see that type of quality detail-work these days.

Which is your favorite?
While I doted on the original metal design, I still have an eye for functionality. A markedly raised metal plate like that could snag on stuff or even scratch something that might brush against it.

I quite like the second generation plates, particularly the slick “transparent” look of the recessed plates.

But then again, the third generation logos, when Lenovo took over ThinkPad, are the only ones to highlight the ThinkPad brand and not the parent company. It even includes a subtle notation of the specific series, which I really dig.

Which is your favorite, and why? Hit up the poll and leave a comment!