What's this design on my T450's back called? Googling "thinkpad t450 back" doesnt give any similar results.
It looks like a typical thinkpad rubber back, but with the x1's "carbon fiber" design cutting through it with a wide diagonal line. Google only gives standard rubber backs. Anyone have any idea what this version of the design is called?
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Looks custom. It seems unlikely that Lenovo would offer this.
Run your fingernail across the transition in each direction. Is the carbon fiber part higher than the rubber coating, or lower?
higher. i doubt it's a sticker though, it's almost like its intergrated into the case.
fyi, i bought it from a local store called e-byte.gr, but the keyboard is nordic (probably swedish)
I really doubt it's actually carbon fibre why would you put carbon fibre on a laptop made of plastic? The plastic would deform from impact before the carbon fibre would, so it would have no benefit.
Perhaps Lenovo decided that they wanted to add a single design element to their laptop in a brave new move to be interesting.
Pretty cool looking whatever it is lol.
Some people use carbon foil for cars to customize their thinkpads.
see here: https://thinkwiki.de/Geh%C3%A4useteile_mit_Schutzfolie_versehen
why is it a wide diagonal line tho
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If you're looking for what the design is called, they're zigzags. The shape of the design and the angle of the pattern obscures the pattern. If you were to rotate it so that the two acute angles of the parallelogram were pointing up and down you should see the parallel zigzag patterns more clearly.
So it's a parallelogram filled with thick zigzags. I couldn't find anything with google, so it's probably a custom job.
yea ik about the zigzags
i was asking about the parallelogram design lol
If Google Lens isn't bringing up anything, could it be custom-made?
do you have the specific model number of it? that may lead to a specific hardware revision,
could also have been a replaced part, tho idk
Neofetch says 20BUS13B08 (Thinkpad T450)
Theres a sticker on the bottom which says KO-99924457
Also the keyboard is Swedish QWERTY, it has Æ, Ø and Å.
I call it Geoffrey.
A couple minutes after posting, I also ran the image through google lens. It only shows custom carbon fiber wraps and images of X1 thinkpads. Here the carbon fiber design is only in a diagonal line, what's that design called?
Btw regarding the design, closest term I know on a similar design is the "racing stripe".
Stickers? Dove Stickers?
I have this on some of the laptop I own... To hide their ugliness
Not a sticker, looks like its part of the back cover, doesnt come off at all
Maybe woven fiber
Yeah, but whats the design where its a wide fiagonal line cutting through the typical rubber back called?
This looks like custom made, I would like to see details on the corners of the Thinkpad lid, mostly curious. Lovely design imo.