(and also the Dell Latitude E series) are giving Lenovo some really good competition. yes i would really love to check out the E-series. ... if E-series has the same issues I am just going to by an older thinkpad. I got my hands on an E-series (E6400) evaluation unit a couple days ago. It's a good ...

I would have been tempted to get this, except I have no $ right now

The Z series was always maligned, but I always did like the Z6xt, especially with the titanium lid. The one improvement I would have liked to see was a brighter display.

The D620/630 and D820/830 are well built machines with good keyboards. Aesthetically they are not quite as refined as ThinkPads, but I would have no problem using one.

Nice find. This really does look like today's ultimate ThinkPad. I like almost everything except the price.

Impressive.

The only improvement I can think of would be a discrete GPU, but that will probably have to wait until GPU makers create more energy-efficient graphics parts.

I have read that the price ($2600-2700) is as impressive as the specifications.

This looks like a hoax to me. The specs are too good to be true, and everyone from here to Ars Technica is absolutely drooling over it.

Does anyone know if 13.3" displays are even available at that high resolution? That and some of the language in the slides leaves me skeptical.

Yech... I am not a fan of this kind of flashy consumer-grade notebook. I can understand why Lenovo needs this line of computers though. HP's home notebooks are top sellers, and Dell's XPS M1330 and 1530 have attracted a lot of attention. It'll make Lenovo some nice $ I am sure, but I won't be buying...

Happy New Year!

CES 2008 is only a week away! New notebooks and Penryn Core 2 CPUs will be here soon

The 3.0 NOD32 interface is much better than 2.7. I'm satisfied with it so far.

I think that there is no need to put super fast CPUs in most notebook computers. Notebooks benefit more from lots of RAM and faster HDDs. Also, bloatware has been destroying much of the gains in computer speed. Bootup speed on a lot of consumer grade machines is abyssmal, and RAM gets filled up with...

MacBook LCDs are glossy. If you work in environments with a lot of overhead lighting, the reflections can be a pain. The MacBook Pro has the option of either the glossy or matte display. I prefer the matte. Overall brightness and evenness of lighting is very good. My favorite notebook displays are t...

Cons of my job: boredom and lack of opportunity to move up.

On the bright side, the pay is relatively good and the co-workers on my team are very professional.

I thought people might find this interesting. It seems that electronic stuff that people recycle often ends up piled in some other country: http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/11/18/electronics.trash.ap/index.html While there are no precise figures, activists estimate that 50 to 80 percent of the 300,000 t...

I received my brand new top of the line HP Dv2500t I'm not surprised that support was terrible. The dv2500t is a consumer grade notebook with consumer level support. If you ever buy HP again, make sure to get a business model (like the 6910p). You'll get better build quality and tech support. Best ...

I took good care of my MBP but still there are quite a few small dents here and there. The aluminum alloy casing seems to have been a dent magnet for many years now. I remember seeing PowerBook G4's with lots of small dents in them :? My biggest problem with the MBP is the keyboard. It is mushy and...

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/10/08/lenovo-sued PC MANUFACTURER, Lenovo, has earned the ire of honorable Christine Moruza, a California Superior court judge, in recent days. It appears that a $10,000 US bench warrant has been issued for the arrest of an individual who was acting ...

Now the American and Canadian governments are factually known to be complicant in violence against innocent people for no other reason than the governments don't like the way they look. Yet we sell our products elsewhere. This is true, but the US Government generally doesn't own pieces the companie...

Link Penryn is looking pretty healthy, with limited release for server and high end desktop on Nov. 12th of this year. I'm only wishing that notebook versions would be available soon after, but it looks like we'll have to wait until 2008 for that. The big news is Nehalem. Intel showed off a working...

I can understand Lenovo waiting for SSD technology to improve. I'd like to see a native SATA SSD as well. Current SSD power savings don't seem all that great from what I have read on AnandTech.

I don't think there's enough information to go on here. Any company can express "interest" in buying another company. My local Mom and Pop coffee shop can express "interest" in buying Microsoft.

This does not mean that the Seagate board and shareholders will approve.

All very interesting suggestions. I will evaluate and keep you all posted. Thanks!

I've never liked using other people's computers to check my personal email or do anything requiring me to use a login and password. I am shocked at how many people (1) always run in an admin account (2) don't run updates on their antivirus and OS (3) install or allow to be installed, all sorts of we...

The 820 and 830 are not bad machines. They are well built, but the design feels a bit less refined than a ThinkPad. The plastic pieces don't fit together as nicely, and the trackpoint needs a scroll button.

Puppy wrote:HP 2510p with single 2 GB RAM module is also cheaper than X61 with two 512M RAM ones. Unfortunately the HP keyboard is unacceptable.

I haven't tried the 2510p, but the older nc series had pretty decent keyboards.

I think the HP business stuff (nc series, new p series) are worthy competitors to the ThinkPad. They are very well thought out and nicely built.

The Dell Dx20/x30 machines are good machines that will get the job done, but I feel their design is not yet up to ThinkPad level.

Watching the situation with ThinkPads for last months I'm asking myself whether top-quality products in general can survive in current economy driven by (mostly crappy) consumer products for the masses. I think so. With respect to business notebooks, I've seen quality decline throughout the late 19...

The obvious answer was to make the generation number consistent across all product lines.

Around 2003, we had the X31, R40, and T40. Somewhere along the line, it became X40, R50, and T40. Now it is X60, R60, and T60.

rleo25 wrote:Really guys would you pay 3 grand more for a leather sleeve and a premium 24/7 service?

Personally, I wouldn't. I'd rather invest the 3 grand in a retirement fund. But I am still curious to see what people's experiences with these things are.

So did anyone actually buy one yet???

I don't dislike widescreen displays, because the extra horizontal rez can be useful for IM lists and system monitoring widgets. However, I agree with the sentiment that lost vertical resolution can be annoying. I really prefer to scroll as little as possible in the text that I am reading or editing.