At long last, my Thinkpad T60 arrived. I am impressed with how cool and quiet it runs, at least compared with my current crappy HP work laptop.
The non-IPS 14" screen is brighter than that on my last Thinkpad. I like it plenty, even for things like photo editing (I haven't color-calibrated it yet, though). It has no dead pixels. I am glad that I didn't get the bigger 15" model just for an IPS screen.
The keyboard is, if anything, improved over my old T41's keyboard. I was prepared to hate the presence of the Windows key, but there still seems to be plenty of room for all the keys in the lower-left corner. The keyboard light is perfect.
I was sort of disappointed to get the 5400 RPM drive due to the sale model I picked, but the drive seems fast enough for my needs.
I haven't tested the X1400 graphics with any games yet, but expect it to run my mostly-older games pretty well.
I don't find the small round on-off and other buttons a letdown, but then I am not a stuck-up Thinkpad purist.
I have two batteries in at the moment, the standard 6-cell and the Ultrabay battery. Running in the "Power Source Optimized" power scheme, which maxes performance plugged in and saves power unplugged, the remaining battery power shows 6:53 when I unplug. I haven't let it run down yet, but this seems pretty awesome to me. I was considering undervolting, but this is already good enough for me to go all day at school unplugged if I want to.
There were an incredible number of things running and showing in the system tray when I first booted up. I decided not to reinstall Windows, and just turned most of them off.
Access Connections seems to work just great. In general the network performance on this laptop seems awesome. There was only one choice for wireless card when I bought the laptop, the Lenovo one, but it seems to work great.
I disabled the fingerprint scanner, since I will never use it.
The chassis is the stiffest of any laptop I've used. The palm rests are a little rougher than my old Thinkpads, but I like it. The screen hinge feels like it will work forever without wobbling; it's perfectly tight. You can pick the laptop up by the top edge of the screen and no flexing occurs anywhere (not that I'll be doing this on a regular basis).
The 2GHz dual core chip seems to help with system responsiveness so far, although that's awfully subjective. I haven't put the system under a heavy multitasking load yet. The 1.5 GB of RAM isn't hurting, I'm sure.
I am going to try using the provided backup software to make a backup set on DVDs tomorrow. I may try a restore just to see how well it works. If this keeps me from buying a license of Ghost, so much the better.
My wife was kind of underwhelmed by the thinness and lightness of it, but I explained to her that it's not an ultraportable but a good all-around machine. For some reason it feels lighter than its weight, even with the bay battery in.
All in all, I like it and am glad I stuck it out through the long waiting period. It was a lot of money even on sale, but I think it was worth it.
Laptop Day really is the best holiday!
The non-IPS 14" screen is brighter than that on my last Thinkpad. I like it plenty, even for things like photo editing (I haven't color-calibrated it yet, though). It has no dead pixels. I am glad that I didn't get the bigger 15" model just for an IPS screen.
The keyboard is, if anything, improved over my old T41's keyboard. I was prepared to hate the presence of the Windows key, but there still seems to be plenty of room for all the keys in the lower-left corner. The keyboard light is perfect.
I was sort of disappointed to get the 5400 RPM drive due to the sale model I picked, but the drive seems fast enough for my needs.
I haven't tested the X1400 graphics with any games yet, but expect it to run my mostly-older games pretty well.
I don't find the small round on-off and other buttons a letdown, but then I am not a stuck-up Thinkpad purist.
I have two batteries in at the moment, the standard 6-cell and the Ultrabay battery. Running in the "Power Source Optimized" power scheme, which maxes performance plugged in and saves power unplugged, the remaining battery power shows 6:53 when I unplug. I haven't let it run down yet, but this seems pretty awesome to me. I was considering undervolting, but this is already good enough for me to go all day at school unplugged if I want to.
There were an incredible number of things running and showing in the system tray when I first booted up. I decided not to reinstall Windows, and just turned most of them off.
Access Connections seems to work just great. In general the network performance on this laptop seems awesome. There was only one choice for wireless card when I bought the laptop, the Lenovo one, but it seems to work great.
I disabled the fingerprint scanner, since I will never use it.
The chassis is the stiffest of any laptop I've used. The palm rests are a little rougher than my old Thinkpads, but I like it. The screen hinge feels like it will work forever without wobbling; it's perfectly tight. You can pick the laptop up by the top edge of the screen and no flexing occurs anywhere (not that I'll be doing this on a regular basis).
The 2GHz dual core chip seems to help with system responsiveness so far, although that's awfully subjective. I haven't put the system under a heavy multitasking load yet. The 1.5 GB of RAM isn't hurting, I'm sure.
I am going to try using the provided backup software to make a backup set on DVDs tomorrow. I may try a restore just to see how well it works. If this keeps me from buying a license of Ghost, so much the better.
My wife was kind of underwhelmed by the thinness and lightness of it, but I explained to her that it's not an ultraportable but a good all-around machine. For some reason it feels lighter than its weight, even with the bay battery in.
All in all, I like it and am glad I stuck it out through the long waiting period. It was a lot of money even on sale, but I think it was worth it.
Laptop Day really is the best holiday!
