Rated 5 out of
5 by
luke from
X1 Carbon Dream Come True
I purchased the ThinkPad USB 3.0 Hub for my X1 and last second decided to see if Lenovo had the forethought to port over the amazing keyboard from the X1 to a USB. Thank goodness. This thing feels amazing. The first one I received had the middle scroll button stick a little. 5 minute call to Lenovo and a new one was on the way at no charge with a prepaid box to ship the old one back. Fantastic customer service on top of a fantastic product makes it hard to recommend anything else.
On a side note: Lenovo, whenever you decide to update this keyboard I have two suggestions:
1. Make it back lit (I would buy another one tomorrow).
2. Don't use the newest X1 keyboard layout. Not a fan.
Date published: 2014-08-11
Rated 4 out of
5 by
Anonymous from
Love the incorporated TrackPoint, and the size
Very nice size. I'm using this with a massive dual CPU, triple GPU stationary Windows 7 Pro PC. Great for productivity to have this and be able to switch to a Lenovo laptop and the fingers are already accustomed to everything. Excellent function buttons at the top. Two downsides:
1. Sometimes there's mouse creep. The mouse cursor slides across the screen, and I have to push to keep it in place, or else it slips down to the lower right hand corner. When that happens the display window switches to my desktop area. I've read others have the same problem.
2. Sometimes the speaker volume and mute buttons hang. I have to open up the speaker control in Windows, and then everything works well again. Odd.
Date published: 2015-06-24
Rated 5 out of
5 by
Paul from
Great for travel but also wrist / shoulder relief
This is a really great keyboard. The form and size allows for travel but I've got these for my desktop machines at home and work. The low profile helps with wrist strain and the compact size allows the mouse to be closer and your shoulder positions to be more neutral which is really nice. You can SWITCH the Ctrl and Fn key functions if you like. It's in the manual. That said, I haven't switched it and I use the Ctrl key extensively without issue. Also, I keep the F# keys active instead of the multimedia keys.
Date published: 2014-04-15
Rated 2 out of
5 by
Frisco from
No real middle mouse button
I'm an X windows user, and make extensive use of the middle mouse button with the trackpoint. I've used many Lenovo laptops and keyboards and until now loved them all because they had a three button mouse built right into the keyboard.
Unfortunately, the middle mouse button on this keyboard is not really a middle mouse button, because it doesn't allow you to drag. The minute you drag, the mouse button is reported as released and instead up and down movement gets reported as scroll wheel events. Worse, I can't even get the horizontal scroll wheel to work, because it seems to get reported as a completely different class of usb hid event.
What's so frustrating about this is that it's trivial to configure the X server to emulate a scroll wheel given a third mouse button, but almost impossible to do the converse. Why did Lenovo do this do the keyboard instead of just having the driver software or configuration handle scrollwheel emulation for people who want it?
Date published: 2014-06-24
Rated 5 out of
5 by
Kevin from
Good Keyboard
I purchased this keyboard after using the X120e laptop by Lenovo. The tactile response and key layout is by far the best I have ever used. I only have one gripe about the keyboard. I wish there were function controls for pause/play, and fast forward. The x120e has these options and I really notice their absence. I would have easily given up the alt-tab shortcut, windows "Find" and whatever function is added to F12 (doesn't do anything on Windows 7 Pro that I can tell). Lastly, I felt the price point was a little high but for Lenovo quality and the specific design I was looking for I was willing to pay for it.
Date published: 2013-11-21
ThinkPad Compact USB Keyboard with TrackPoint US English
Part number: 0B47190
Rating 3.5 | 15 reviews
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