My Search Comes To An End
After much thought and a decent amount of research I have finally decided on which notebook to buy and it will be the Lenovo Thinkpad T61p, 15.4″. It will be a nice upgrade to my current rig, which is approaching 3 year old ASUS W3V, but for some reason it says it is not going to ship until 5/19, although when I ordered it, it said 4/16. I really hope this is true cause that is such a long wait.
If anyone else wants the discount I got, which was 15%, plus the 25% sale they are having go here. Here is a rundown of the specs of my sweet new rig:
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor T9300 (2.5GHz 800MHz 6MBL2)1
Genuine Windows XP Professional
15.4 WSXGA+ TFT (1680×1050), non-glossy
NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M (256MB Open GL)
1 GB PC2-5300 DDR2 SDRAM 667MHz SODIMM Memory (1 DIMM), Upgrading this to 3 GB with a 2 GB stick from newegg
UltraNav (TrackPoint and TouchPad) with Fingerprint Reader
160GB Hard Disk Drive, 7200rpm
DVD Recordable 8x Max Dual Layer, Ultrabay Slim
ThinkPad 11a/b/g Wi-Fi wireless LAN Mini-PCIe US/EMEA/LA/ANZ, I hope I don’t regret not getting the Intel wireless card
Integrated Bluetooth PAN
9 cell Li-Ion Battery
Integrated Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN)
6459: Express – 3 Yr Depot Warranty
Grand total of: $1,383.74 with tax and free shipping
To think my current notebook cost me $1750 just under 3 years ago and is woefully underpowered compared to this Thinkpad.
Unfortunately it doesn’t come with a webcam and I opted not to get the fingerprint reader, since I see it as a novelty. But once I get it, I’ll be doing a full review with pictures and benchmarks. I just hope the 1.5 month shipping quote is so wrong.
--written by Peter To--
