Laptop question

[roninzacek]

Hi:
As you may notice i am a new but not old fan of Anandtech, for more than 2 years I visit this great site, & finally I enter the forum ranks to ask for some wisdom if you wish to share.

the laptops are

toshiba Tecra A7 PTA71C-LL001E
or Tecra PTA71C-LL701E , wich may be a little expensive
both in this link

http://www.toshiba.ca/web/product.grp?l...ction=1&group=1&product=5733&category=



and

IBM ThinkPad Z61m 94515WU

ThinkPad Z60m 253173U

both in this link
http://caipsgws001.can.ibm.com/store/family?type=fb&action=search

i want the Lappy for my wife, she wants to edit some photos and video, I know she may be using, avid, and adobe premiere, as well as photoshop CS, me i will mainliy edit on-the fly Audio for a weekly Gig I produce.
I want to ask your help to decide wich one is best for this Audio, video editing fate

Thanks for your help

 

[corkyg]

The two Lenovos are good as is the Tecra. The reviews on all of them are positive. Based on the use as a photographic processor, I would lean towards the Lenovo Z61m.

I would love to have any of them.

 

[fbrdphreak]

My vote is for the Z61m. Superb build quality, great features, excellent support. I've reviewed a couple Toshibas and while they are all good machines, their "fit and finish" doesn't strike me as much. They bloat down the OS even more than Lenovo does. While Lenovo includes a lot of built-in utilities that really maximize your computer, they are all pretty smoothly integrated. Toshiba just throws together a few dozen different utilities and they are all separate, and rather confusing IMO. Both offer similar levels of configurability and "maximization" so to speak, but Toshiba's is far less smooth.

Anyway, my $0.02

 

[roninzacek]

 

[roninzacek]

thanks a lot for the info guys

 

[cheesehead]

Sorry to get in late, but I can say for a fact that IBMs are hard to beat for graphics work.
A MacBook Pro is another good option. It's light, fast, and VERY powerful, and it's got an x1600. They run Windows just as well as Mac OSX, and it's not hard to get educator or student discounts, if applicable.

 

[roninzacek]

Thanks, feel free to add more INFO, i check this +/- twice a week