ThinkPad flex, stainless steel hinges, a biometric fingerprint reader, Client Security Solution, which improves security using a built-in Trusted Platform Module (TPM) and facilitates deployment in corporate environment, the ThinkVantage Technologies suite of computer management applications, and drain holes to help reduce damage to the keyboard and components from accidental spillage. The original design concept of ThinkPad was created in 1990 by Italy-based designer Richard Sapper, a corporate design consultant of IBM and, since 2005, Lenovo. Sapper is noted for the design of classic products such as the Tizio lamp for Artemide, office chair for Knoll, kitchenwares for Alessi and ballpoint
ThinkPad X series to be available in the UK on June 7, 2011. The specifications of the ThinkPad X1 laptop are given below: The ThinkPad X-series laptops released in 2012 by Lenovo were the X1 Carbon, X131e, X230 and X230t (tablet). In the T, W, and L series the models Thinkpad T430, T430s, T530, W530, L430 and L530 were also released. In early August 2012, Lenovo released the ThinkPad X1 Carbon announced on .<ref name="release X1 Carbon,X230,X230t,T430,T430s,T530,W530,L430,L530,Series 3/USB 3.0 Dock"></ref> The X1 Carbon weighs 1.35 kg, has a battery life of roughly eight hours, and has a start-up time of less than 20