The design looks great. But after I got my first Thinkpad I started to use the physical mouse buttons with the touchpad, and even disabled all the point-and-click stuff and after that you can use it almost as good as a separate mouse. I would hate to go back to push-and-lick actions.

To the media keys being default, that is not an problem, you can change them back in BIOS to work as regular F-keys.

Thinner and sleeker is always a good thing if the build quality is what it used to be, and I believe it is.

Keyboard backlight is also a great thing if you just can change the level to be very minimal to barely see the keys in the dark.

All in all, this very well may be my next laptop.

And to you guys you whine about not enough usb-ports or the lack of CD-drive, I'm sure there is a Thinkpad coming with the new design that gives you all that and more.

The fact is, people very rarely need CD-drive and tons of ports, this machine will suit really big part of the population and like me, im happy to sacrifice CD-drive and few ports for a lighter machine that I carry around daily.

(sorry for the bad english, it is not my native language)