Re: OT: laptop choice
Am Donnerstag, 29. September 2011 schrieb Lisi:
> On Thursday 29 September 2011 10:05:49 Nuno Magalhães wrote:
> > some say nice things about
> > Thinkpads, others say they're not built as they used to be.
>
> Those 2 statements are not necessarily contradictory. Thinkpads may
> still be good, whilst not being as good as they used to be. (I rather
> get the impresssion that that is the case.)
Actually I am really pleased with that brand new ThinkPad T520 + Intel SSD
320 that I am typing this message on at the moment. Although T520 / T420
should be a first model series with more plastic than metal in the case it
still feels really robust.
For sure that T42 and T23 I have are rocksolid, but for now, I did not
notice anything where the T520 appears as off lowered quality to me. Maybe
I don´t notice everything, granted, but subjectively I am very pleased.
The only thing I was upset about and still am a bit is the model politics.
Each T520 should have at least an eSATA port, not just the ones with
NVidia Optimus. And USB 3 is also lacking from the T series, one need to
buy the W series for this and then also gets a NVidia Optimus.
Dear Lenovo, don´t force NVidia stuff upon me, I am satisfied with Intel
Sandybridge onboard graphics. It plays Supertuxkart in Full HD just nicely
(apart from a hang every now and then which might be a driver problem) and
also the playstation emulator works just well.
Well I now that Lenovo model politicians are probably not reading this.
And put a Delock eSATA expressCard into the one expresscard slot. Thats
also a downgrade. The T42 had two PCMCIA slots.
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