[ltp] Contacting IBM with design feedback

[Richard Neill]

Does anyone know how to give IBM design feedback on thinkpads? Where 
should suggestions be emailed?

There's a lot of things I like about them, but there are also some thins 
that could be better, and I'd like to point them out (so that perhaps 
the next model might incorporate some changes...).

There's no way of doing this on the IBM website - there are plenty of 
ways to *ask* IBM, but no ways to *tell* IBM :-)

For instance:

*The A-series is missing the fold-out feet. These were really useful on 
the 770, and it would be good to have them back. At the moment, I have 
to use a stand to raise the keyboard angle.

*I see that the new A-series has a different layout of mouse buttons. I 
think that this is a bad thing, because it makes it very hard to use it 
like a proper (3 button and scroll) mouse. At the moment, one can use 
button 2 to emulate a wheel, and get middle click by pressing buttons 1 
and 3 simultaneously. But the new design makes this impossible, since 
buttons 1,3 are no longer adjacent, and cannot be clicked 
simulataneously by one finger.


Richard