[ltp] T60 Preview (No!!!! Not Windows Buttons!!! Take Them Away!!!!)

[Alex Deucher]

On 1/12/06, Aaron Mulder <ammulder@alumni.princeton.edu> wrote:
> It looks like Lenovo released the January tabook.pdf yesterday...
> It's a little disappointing.  Only one T60 (the one on the web site, I
> guess) and 3 X60 models.  Guess we'll have to wait until February for
> the big guns.  :)
>

Do any of the X60 models have discrete graphics or are they all
integrated intel chips?

Alex

> Anyway, I wish the stupid Windows button would go away, but I'm not
> ready to condemn Lenovo.  I'm sure the Z series was in the pipeline
> before IBM sold the division, and we've had a couple post-Lenovo T's
> that haven't been in any way inferior.  Still, I'd buy a MacBook in a
> heartbeat if they had a multibutton mouse and faster CPU (and while
> I'm at it, Dell has a very nice 1920x1200 15.4" screen).  The original
> T60 review said they got a 2.13 GHz model, so hopefully both Apple and
> IBM will bump up the speeds soon.
>
> Aaron
>
> On 1/10/06, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 05:39:34PM -0300, The Maxx wrote:
> > > May this be heresy in this list but, did you see this http://www.appl=
e.com/
> > > macbookpro/
> > > It was announce in the MacWorld 2006.
> >
> > A machine that's heavier and slower than a T60? It swaps the WWAN
> > capability for a built-in camera, so I guess it depends on what you wan=
t
> > to do with it.
> >
> > (I'm not convinced by this bitching about Lenovo right now. If the
> > reality of the X60s matches the claimed specs, it sounds awfully like a
> > best of breed laptop - light, fast and better battery life than any
> > previous Thinkpad. Will the build quality be dreadful? Perhaps. Will al=
l
> > future Thinkpads effectively be rebadged Dells? Maybe. But we don't
> > actually know yet, and won't for a while.)
> >
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