New ThinkPad X1 Carbon Ultrabook

The good news is that it is available now with an attractive screen resolution of 2560 x 1440. The bad news is that Lenovo still has not settled their changes of the keyboard layout. Look at the keyboard (http://www.lenovo.com/images/gallery/1060x596/lenovo-laptop-...):

* F keys are now not physical keys any more!? One step back from the good old accessible design. No way to sense the keys without looking at the keyboard.

* They completely removed the Capslock key replacing it with Home and End keys. For this change I am kind of open because I never use Capslock and agree that it makes sense to reuse it. At the same time it happens that I occasionally press Capslock instead of shift, which is not a big deal because you can just backspace and retype the wrong words. But if it now becomes Home|End it will mean that your cursor will just go to the beginning|end of the line and you will have much more difficulties to come back to where you are.

* And then between the Right-Alt and Control they have moved the tilde and backtick key. It makes ESC now easier to reach, but for touch typers it will mean to re-educate and you will not be able to easily switch computers.

I am sad that they changed the keyboard layout. I would have ordered this machine, will go with a T440s instead. Maybe Lenovo will finally find the best keyboard layout and stop changing it.

Would love to see how good this machine is supported by Linux.