
The display modules lacks a magnesium frames, and some models have a common issue with a cracked plastic lid. The "roll cage" is a internal frame, designed to minimize motherboard flex current P series and T p series or magnesium composite case all other hi-end models. Some ThinkPad models have a keyboard membrane and drain holes P series, classic T series and T p models, and some have a solid rubber or plastic membrane like X1 series and current T and X series, without draining holes. IdeaPad notebooks carry the TrueBlock branding for their privacy shutters. It is a simple mechanical sliding cover that allows the user to obstruct the webcam's view. ThinkShutter is the branding of a webcam privacy shutter present in some ThinkPad notebook computers.

This software can give additional support for system management backup, encrypting, system drivers installation and upgrade, system monitoring and other.Ĭurrently some old features are replaced by internal Windows 10 features.

While few features remain unique to the series, several laptop technologies originated on ThinkPads.

Several unique features have appeared in the ThinkPad line, like drive protection, pointing stick or TPM chips. Since, the ThinkPad design has been regularly updated, developed and refined over the years by Sapper and the respective teams at IBM and later Lenovo. The industrial design concept was created in by Italy-based designer Richard Sapper, a corporate design consultant of IBM and, since, Lenovo.
