I travel with my 15" T60p, and it's very suitable for both the desk and the plane. it's a little big for the really tight planes, but it's unbeatable in terms of screen real estate, weight/performance ratio as well as that feeling of quality. However, if you get the 14" with the SXGA+ screen, it wou...

Latest charts. I managed to dig up a whole bunch of info from other threads, so around 20 more data points have been added. http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d149/shirubia123/th_t60_shiptime_06-05-18_stagger.png http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d149/shirubia123/th_t60_shiptime_06-05-18.png The fir...

Ok folks. Don't hate me or anything, but my D7U shipped today. I ordered it on May 8th. 4 days to ship. This had been estimated to ship on June 2nd too. Awesome. Mine shipped today!!! Hopefully gets here soon. I initially ordered the D7U, but I wanted to get more screen real estate, so I just got t...

andy6387 wrote:the data i can offer you now is

Model: 2623DDU + 1gb ram
Order Date: Feb 28, 2006
Ship Date: hasn't as of may 6, 2006
receive date: NA

Haven't received mine yet either, 2623DDU + 1gb Ram
Order Date: Feb 22nd, 2006

I called them today and they said they would not have stock of the 2623DDUs for another 2 WEEKS ! Making my wait time 10 weeks, and THATS assuming they actually come through this time! Dude... All I can say is... Daaaaaaamn. :shock: I am sitting here fussing over the fact that it has been 1 week an...

If you're looking for some colour, you should look at Crumpler bags . Since they give you the dimensions of their inner laptop carrying sleeves, you can easily evaluate whether your laptop (sticking out 9-cell and all) will fit in it. if you're into this type of look, go w/ the Timbuk2 - they are m...

macbook pro - runs windows just as well as the thinkpad. overall an excellent computing experience. the userbase is just as excited about mbps as thinkpad owners about their Ts.

I love my Timbuk2 messenger laptop bag (it's the classic, not a big fan of the other one). I like it because i bike everywhere, and it's UNBELIEVABLY stable when on a bike. It fits around your back, and is VERY slick. Also, the cross strap stabilizes it to a degree unavailable w/ a back pack. Overal...

pundit, why did you get rid of your T60p?

G, same boat, except I ordered mine a half a month prior. It's BS, and they deny people getting them every single time I call. When I escalated the matter, no one called me back, hopefully you'll be luckier. Whatever...

Notes about the alleged superiority of the Thinkpad: 1) better warranty - not really. If you live in a city, like I do, there is probably an Apple Store near by (Chicago has several nearby), and they will fix your laptop or replace it ON THE SPOT - I got the 3 year extension, so I am covered for all...

Charles, thanks for sharing your experience. I remember around 5 years ago when I got my first IBM, and it was different then too. But no matter. I am still on order for the IBM, but I also bought an Apple MacBook Pro. I don't realyl want to wait another 3 weeks, as I need a faster machine pretty mu...

Charles, how did you order yours? I ordered mine on Feb 22nd, since then, my shipping date slipped innumerable times, right now it's 5/27/2006, I haven't received any of the things I bought along w/ the laptop, additionally, when I called TODAY, the guy on the phone said no one received their laptop...

at this point, the MBP looks like the better machine: tough exoskeleton, runs both OSX and XP Legally, all of the drivers work (except, inexplicably, the backlit keyboard, isight and one or two more - should work by the time this thing gets out of beta). The price is similar to that of t60p (some ca...

Andy, same exact experience. Couldn't tell me when, just that it would be "within 6-8 weeks from the date of order" - and today is EXACLY 6 weeks after. So I am sitting here, having ordered the machine on the 22nd, and waiting forever to get it, meanwhile, people are getting the DDUs left and right....

From what I understand, some time this year there will be another set of thinkpads with Cingular wireless connectivity built-in. When that will be, however, is still unknown. As far as EVDO vs. Edge - EVDO is tons faster - it's max potential speed is over 20 times faster than what you should expect ...

Yeah, exactly the same - except I ordered mine on Feb. 22nd, and now the shipping date is 5/19 - has been slipping one or more days every day I check it.

Just talked to Lenovo, he is still seeing my T60p (purchased 2/22) shipping by mid-April. This is after they told me 1) they were going to be shipped this week 2) they were going to be shipped last week. When asked about the fact that others have already received their T60p's with the same config as...

A lot of applications can already use Dual Core, especially apps like AutoCAD and photoshop - as they are designed for multiprocessor machines from the get-go. There might not be the same type of improvement from one processor to two, but you should def. see the benefits of SMP at work almost immedi...

love the 15" inch - large screen, lots of real estate - if you need it

Norton Ghost is pretty good for that - it can output the image to a DVD-R or to an USB drive, and will allow you to simply create a boot-up sequence to re-image the new machine (if all of the devices are the same, you shouldn't have any issues). I would recommend the DVD-R option, since booting off ...

NJRonbo, you really need to think about what you're going to do with your laptop. Are you going to be carrying it around? Traveling with it? Using it for high-end projects - like software development, 3D modeling, advanced photo editing? Or, are you going to use your laptop for Productivity applicat...

Dude, why are you sad? because the salespeople at Lenovo didn't give you a good deal? It's certainly NOT because you didn't get to hear that Lenovo is a better laptop. Get over it. If you want an HP, get one - but know that HPs are consumer grade, not professional grade - it WILL start to show after...

Don't dispair. I just called Lenovo and they said that the schedule aspect of the site isn't working well now, and they are actually working on my system right now, so I should be getting it ASAP. I am happier.

holy crap. mine got pushed back to 05/13/06. That's f***ing ridiculous.

Archer, if you can stomach the increase in price, def. go for the 1600...

the text is small, but the real estate is AWESOME. So, what are you doing on your PC? word processing and spreadsheets? or, are you doing design and development work. I do software architecture and programming on my laptop, and I want as much desktop realestate as I can get - code gets long both sid...

if you are spending around 1500 for a t43p, just spring a bit more for the duo core, even though it has a lower res (for the less expensive option).

yep, I am doing a ton w/ WebSphere right now, and also equally a lot w/ .NET (everything is obviously database driven), so two cores is twice as sweet.

Dude, that's just not right. Dual core is ESPECIALLY great for application development, especially java. You see, java has the ability (like most higher-level languages) to manage threads outside of the general thread pool. Thus, for asynchronous tasks (whatever you wish those to be - like web servi...