Lenovo ThinkPad goes skydiving to hide its ugly butt

PC firms are going to more and more extreme lengths to prove how fast they can get their laptops to boot up these days.

But Lenovo has taken it to a whole new level with this fairly mental attempt to impress us with all with its new Powerboot feature.

The idea is that the laptop needs to boot up and eject the DVD drive in order to trigger the parachute and prevent a component massacre from occurring when it hits the ground and goes splat.

Unfortunately the potential destruction of an inanimate object still didn’t get any of us at PC Site excited enough to consider swapping our sleek powerhouse laptops for one of these boxy black plastic ThinkPads.

It’s a shame because Lenovo make good PCs, they just hide them behind a wall of awful design that modern PC users have no need to tolerate. Seriously, if grim was a colour you could guarantee that Lenovo would paint all their ThinkPads in it.

Maybe Lenovo should spend a bit more money on designers and a little less on airplanes and cloud dwelling advertising execs. They would be doing justice to a very good laptop.

Maybe I’m wrong. Does anyone out there think these things are attractive enough to want to own? Or are you all like me, quite happy to think that impacting the ground at 750 mph would go a long way to improving its looks?