[ltp] New ThinkPad

[Martin Steigerwald]

Am Mittwoch, 22. Juni 2011 schrieb James Knott:
> Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > Except for the quite rare, but still annoying lockups, that might be
> > fixed in 3.0.0-rc3 almost everything I tested just works on my
> > ThinkPad T520 out of the box.
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> I just checked the price of a T520.  Ouch!!!

Yes, its pricey. And even then the Intel graphics version doesn=B4t even=20
have an eSATA port. In 2011? Whats up? Also USB 3 is not included. For=20
eSATA you need the even more expensive T520 with NVidia Optimus - what the=
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heck does a NVidia gfx chip have to do with the eSATA port? And for USB 3=20
the even more expensive W520 also with NVidia Optimus. Thus I can=B4t say=20
that I am satisfied with the model politics of Lenovo. The eSATA/USB combo=
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port is there, except that its just a USB port in my model while I do=20
think that it could have *easily* been an eSATA/USB combo port.

Well I do think that when you put an SSD into a T61 or so you will have a=20
really decent and fast ThinkPad as well. Sure, Intel graphics will be=20
slower on older models, but then the Intel drivers engineers are tuning=20
with Intel SNA which should help older models as well. And AFAIR there are=
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models with ATI graphics as well which should just do fine. And you=B4d hav=
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16:10 or even 4:3 display format.

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