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?
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.
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.
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?
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