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Below I am going to be pointing out main things that come to mind about this thinkpad, feel free to ask about anything you want to know about.
After 3 weeks of waiting , and after dealing with a week of customs BS , I have finally received my long awaited R50e Thinkpad.
For all of you that had questions about this Thinkpad, now I am ready to answer all speculations.
1-You dont get a touchp ad , no problem for me I like my trackpoint.
2-You don't get video out, doesn't really matter.
3-You don't get recovery discs you have to make them yourself, fine with me too.
4- You get 4 hours of battery life max , on normal usage.
5- For all those who critisized the R50e for being thick, I didn't find any noteable dfifference between it and the T series except for the touchpad and video out port and some minor fancy features. It's true T series are made out of composite material, but I don't find the R50e of low quality in anyway.
6- It's not heavy at all compared to any notebook of it's class.
7- Is it worth the price ? Damn right it is. @ $ 849 I don't think there is any laptop on the market that can even compare to it quality wise.
8- You get no floppy, BTW do those things even exist anymore ?
9- No ps/2 ports only 2 USB 2.0 ports on the left side, fine with me too.
10- Don't see any where on the bottom for a port replicator, so don't expect getting a port replicator for it.
11- The machine is slow by no means ( 1.6 ghz Dothan Pentium M 2 MB L2 cache with Intel Speed-Step), and the stock 768 MB ram should be enough for almost anyone. Though I have removed stock DDR333 memory( 512 MB infineon + 256 MB samsung) with 2 * 512 MB DDR400 CL 2.5 corsair value select.
12- The trackpoint experience is great, and for your pleasure IBM provides two more different trackpoint caps selections for you to experiment with.
13- IGP is an Intel extreme graphics 2 with 64 MB shared memory, haven't got to testing that out since I got this laptop for writing documents and programming here and there.
14- You get a nice Cd-RW/ DVD rom combo, whihc is very nice, and speed can be controlled via BIOS ( Silent , Normal, High)
15- The security utilities that ocme with this Thinkpad are out of this world, you get an embedded chipset that asks you for a pass phrase, this sofyware loads before the login screen, and encrypts your passphrase on the onboard, security chipset. Also allows you to creat a 2gb max encrypted part of you HDD / user that prevents anyone from viewing your info even when hdd is placed in another laprop.
16- The 15" LCD is awesome with all controls at your fingertips.
17- Special keyboard functions are great, you can hibrenate, eject cd, control brightness turn off LCD turn on Thinklight( which is a nice feature for dark rooms so you can type easily) , all of those can be done in a matter of two clicks.
18- The sound card is good, but the speaker is horrible , you get a one channel speaker that is so weak sometimes you have to stick your ears next to it to hear it, that 1 watt speaker is the only thing that I couldn't understand in my R50e, why provide such a weak speaker ? but once connected to some speakers through the headphone port you can hear the nice quality that the soundcard has to offer.
Any more questions post here.
Below I am going to be pointing out main things that come to mind about this thinkpad, feel free to ask about anything you want to know about.
After 3 weeks of waiting , and after dealing with a week of customs BS , I have finally received my long awaited R50e Thinkpad.
For all of you that had questions about this Thinkpad, now I am ready to answer all speculations.
1-You dont get a touchp ad , no problem for me I like my trackpoint.
2-You don't get video out, doesn't really matter.
3-You don't get recovery discs you have to make them yourself, fine with me too.
4- You get 4 hours of battery life max , on normal usage.
5- For all those who critisized the R50e for being thick, I didn't find any noteable dfifference between it and the T series except for the touchpad and video out port and some minor fancy features. It's true T series are made out of composite material, but I don't find the R50e of low quality in anyway.
6- It's not heavy at all compared to any notebook of it's class.
7- Is it worth the price ? Damn right it is. @ $ 849 I don't think there is any laptop on the market that can even compare to it quality wise.
8- You get no floppy, BTW do those things even exist anymore ?
9- No ps/2 ports only 2 USB 2.0 ports on the left side, fine with me too.
10- Don't see any where on the bottom for a port replicator, so don't expect getting a port replicator for it.
11- The machine is slow by no means ( 1.6 ghz Dothan Pentium M 2 MB L2 cache with Intel Speed-Step), and the stock 768 MB ram should be enough for almost anyone. Though I have removed stock DDR333 memory( 512 MB infineon + 256 MB samsung) with 2 * 512 MB DDR400 CL 2.5 corsair value select.
12- The trackpoint experience is great, and for your pleasure IBM provides two more different trackpoint caps selections for you to experiment with.
13- IGP is an Intel extreme graphics 2 with 64 MB shared memory, haven't got to testing that out since I got this laptop for writing documents and programming here and there.
14- You get a nice Cd-RW/ DVD rom combo, whihc is very nice, and speed can be controlled via BIOS ( Silent , Normal, High)
15- The security utilities that ocme with this Thinkpad are out of this world, you get an embedded chipset that asks you for a pass phrase, this sofyware loads before the login screen, and encrypts your passphrase on the onboard, security chipset. Also allows you to creat a 2gb max encrypted part of you HDD / user that prevents anyone from viewing your info even when hdd is placed in another laprop.
16- The 15" LCD is awesome with all controls at your fingertips.
17- Special keyboard functions are great, you can hibrenate, eject cd, control brightness turn off LCD turn on Thinklight( which is a nice feature for dark rooms so you can type easily) , all of those can be done in a matter of two clicks.
18- The sound card is good, but the speaker is horrible , you get a one channel speaker that is so weak sometimes you have to stick your ears next to it to hear it, that 1 watt speaker is the only thing that I couldn't understand in my R50e, why provide such a weak speaker ? but once connected to some speakers through the headphone port you can hear the nice quality that the soundcard has to offer.
Any more questions post here.
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