Lenovo Thinkpad T400 : the advantage of T61

Lenovo Thinkpad T400 : the advantage of T61

Advantages :

#1 based on the Centrino 2 platform

#2 the product to work outstanding performance

#3 the keyboard feel to maintain a high standard

#4 dual-card design

#5 good temperature control

Disadvantages:

#1 leading to the rear of the standard battery protruding

Started from the ThinkPad T61, Lenovo notebook speakers will be part of the design on both sides of the keyboard. ThinkPad T400 is the speaker continues the T61 design, design here can be more conducive to the spread of sound.

ThinkPad T400 in the search for the previous generation is really the difference between before the IBM T61 is not an easy thing, the first two products using the same mold completely. If you say that the difference between the two products, it can only say that the hardware configuration of the two products on the poor.

ThinkPad T400 Use Centrino 2 mobile technology, and T61 are based on the Santa Rosa, Santa Rosa Refresh platform, two generations of products which may be the only gap between the. In addition the first time, the introduction of dual-card switching ThinkPad T400. To the performance of business users more choice.

Interface design continues the ThinkPad T400’s design ThinkPad T61. We have received the ThinkPad T400 is equipped with a four-in-one card reader slot, IEE1394a interface. T400 in the provision of four-in-one card reader at the same time slot.

The original design of dual PC Card slot. T61 in accordance with the design before the next commercial version of the original ThinkPad T400 dual PC Card slot, providing a total of three locations optional combinations: PC Card / four-in-one card reader, ExpressCard / PC Card, PC Card / Smart Card.

ThinkPad T400 is a position in the notebook computer business applications. Product designers have the performance and battery life to make a balance. In order to ensure the battery life, T400 uses Core 2 Duo P8600 processor, this TDP processor processor T9×00 less than 10W. The 2.4GHz processor operating parameters including frequency, 3MB cache, 1066MHz FSB.

ThinkPad T400 comes standard with a 10.8V 5200 mAh Li-ion laptop battery and before the introduction of the T61 is fully consistent standard battery capacity. The battery life test, ThinkPad T400 is not particularly outstanding performance. One high-intensity office life 140 minutes for DVD playback test time 116 minutes. If we can not meet the needs of users, you can match a higher-capacity 9-cell battery.

First of all, in the design, ThinkPad T400 Thinkpad T500 full extension of the T61 design times, we can even upgrade to the Thinkpad T61 Centrino 2 platform to describe the T400. Of course, the T61 also has inherited the fine attributes, such as PC card slot design flexibility. Good feelings and so the use of.

As regards the change of the hardware configuration upgrade is the biggest change in this product. Time to upgrade the hardware configuration of the T400 has been the performance of a higher level to meet the higher intensity business computing. In addition the introduction of the first ThinkPad T400 Dual Card switching technology, allowing the series to life in high-performance and high-performance switch freely between.

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Lenovo Thinkpad X300 further Review

Lenovo Thinkpad X300 further Review

ThinkPad X300 reason of concern because of its research and its technologies are used in many of today’s popular ultra-portable notebook at the same time has always been the focus of attention. Light is the biggest selling point, ThinkPad X300 lightest to 1.33 kilograms (even if the choice of optical drive, weighs only 1.42 kilograms), the thinnest Department only 18.6 millimeters, at the same time with a 7 mm ultra-thin double-layer recordable DVD drive (Also Dell latitude D620 battery use this DVD driver), you can easily Add bags or luggage.

Thinkpad X300 Specs

• Processor: 1.20GHz Intel Core 2 Duo L7100 (800Mhz FSB, 4MB Cache)
• Graphics: Intel X3100 as Thinkpad X200 battery
• Screen: 13.3-inch WXGA+ (1440 x 900, 300 nit) LED backlit display
• Memory: 2GB (up to 4GB configurable)
• Storage: 64GB SSD
• Optical Drive: Ultra-thin DVD Burner
• Wireless and Communications: Intel 4965AGN (802.11 a/b/g/n wi-fi), BlueTooth 2.0 EDR, Intel UWB, GPS, Verizon WWAN (EV-DO)
• Battery: 6-cell Li-Ion extended life battery
• Ports: 3 USB 2.0 ports, Monitor out port, AC adapter, headphone/line-out, microphone/line-in, Gigabit Ethernet
• Dimensions: 12.4″ x 9.1″ x 0.73″ – 0.92″
• Weight: from 2.93lbs with 3-cell battery and no optical drive to 3.32lbs with 6-cell battery and DVD Burner in
• Port Replicator: Via USB
• Input: Full sized keyboard, trackpoint navigation, touchpad, fingerprint reader
• Operating System: Windows XP or Windows Vista (in various flavors)
• Other Features: Integrated web camera, powerful thinkpad X300 battery

It to a lot of people compare Apple Macbook Air Apple Macbook Air as “the ultimate thin and light” and the ThinkPad X300 is a “no compromise light” here refers to the uncompromising performance, the existence of Apple Macbook Air interface less than , non-standard optical disk drive, memory card there, and many other battery change not regret, and the ThinkPad X300 is more comprehensive.

Light, is the beginning of thin ThinkPad X300 notebook to get the first impression, as is currently the lightest full-featured notebook 13 inches, really deserves. Whole transmission is still the appearance of the “black” appearance of the classic, although the machine has been monotonous black as main color, but it gives the feeling of losing fashion. Its powerful battery is litium battery as VGP-BPS8 VGP-BPS9 VGP-BPS11 VGP-BPS13. The reason why such a thin and light ThinkPad X300 with its use of the material body has a great relationship, X300 using CFRP carbon fiber and glass fiber GFRP as top and bottom of the body material, to ensure a solid body of good control at the same time weight machine.

Thinkpad X300 battery using locking design, unlock the front left is located in the fuselage, one-handed opening and closing of the notebook some difficulties, but the benefits of this design is the security of the notebook have a good guarantee. Of course, there are less than each notebook, I use the X300 for some time, found that the shaft resistance of a small notebook, so I do not know the design of the notebook, or more than the number of opening and closing of cause; In addition, the skin texture of the matte notebook region, if the user the situation in this touching and humid, it is easy to leave a mark, but it is very difficult to remove.

Thinkpad X300 interior design, in the whole extension of the ThinkPad is still the IBM traditional style, in the middle of the screen set up above the 1.3 million-pixel camera, the camera lights next to the keyboard, user-friendly to use in the dark. In the look down in the notebook inside of the two axes are the logo and the Lenovo logo X300.

Relatively rich interface X300 is a big selling point, many people give up Apple Macbook Air and X300 choose one of the major reasons is because this point. Although the X300 compared to the ordinary 13-inch notebook interface or worse, but has been used to meet the day-to-day. The following is a notebook specific distribution of the interface.

In fact, the whole performance of X300 can only say that it is ordinary, Core 2 Duo L7100 processor frequency of only 1.2GHz as thinkpad X200 battery, but the application of the ordinary day-to-day, or enough. In fact, the hardware configuration of the X300’s biggest bright spot is the hard drive is equipped with, X300 uses SSD solid state hard drive, SSD solid state drive uses NAND flash memory, hard drive not have to worry about the collision of data loss, which greatly raised the hard disk data security.

Overall, this notebook is remarkable, 13-inch thin frame, 1.33 kilograms of whole weight, the excellent performance of the hard drive, LED screen, said to be worthy of the ThinkPad family of a milestone for inspiron 6000. But there are also many places with some regret that the general processor performance, interface, or a little weak, especially the price of the current wetlands, or some to be prohibitive. The X300 is currently priced at 24,999 yuan, more suitable for high-end business users, especially for a portable notebook and endurance than the value of this part of users.

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Thinkpad T61 : update to the T60

Thinkpad T61 : update to the T60

ThinkPad T61 and the ThinkPad R61 are the Lenovo Centrino laptops. They are so similar that you cant differ them only by their physical desigh. The thinkpad T61 is the update of Thinkpad T60: 14-inch models include all the important parts of Intel’s revamped Centrino platform, including new Core 2 Duo CPUs, extra onboard Turbo Memory (for boosting access times), and 802.11n Wi-Fi.

The ThinkPad T61 continues the T-Series tradition of being thin and light enough to carry around with you all day – 336 x 237 x 28mm (WxDxH) and 2.3kg – but still maintaining a decent size screen and keyboard. In fact, whenever I’ve been asked what my favourite ThinkPad model is, I’ve always been torn between the T-Series and X-Series, with the latter being smaller and lighter, but also less feature packed.

Specs

• Processor: Intel T7300 Core 2 Duo (2.0GHz, 800MHz FSB, 4MB Cache)
• Graphics: Intel GMA X3100
• Operating System: Windows Vista Business
• Display: WXGA+ 1440 x 900 (LG screen)
• Hard Drive: 100GB 7200RPM (Seagate Momentus 7200.1)
• Memory: 2GB (1GB x 1GB), up to 4GB max
• Ports: 3 USB 2.0, 1 FireWire, Monitor out, modem, Ethernet, headphone out, microphone in
• Slots: 1 PC Card Slot, 1 ExpressCard slot (optional media card reader and Smart Card reader)
• Optical Drive: Ultra-slim Super-Multi Drive
• Dimensions: 13.2″ x 9.3″ x 1.09 – 1.26″ (335mm x 237mm x 27.6 – 31.9mm)
• Weight: 5.1lbs
• Battery : Thinkpad T61 battery 6 cell.

The new CPUs from Intel, including the T7300 in the ThinkPad T61, all include some power saving and performance boosting features. One feature is called Enhanced Dynamic Acceleration, which will power down one core of the CPU when it’s not needed, and use some of the power saved to boost the still-active core, giving it more speed. On top of that the FSB has been increased from 667MHz to 800MHz, providing more bandwidth and faster communication between the CPU, the memory and the chipset.

New switchable graphics, LCD backlit displays, and DisplayPort technology features give you superior graphics performance on your ThinkPad T Series notebook. Experience brighter, crisper colors and lower power consumption life with the new LED backlit displays on the ThinkPad T Series. These new displays are bright without sacrificing battery life, with 25% brighter displays and using 2W less power than conventional CCFL displays. These high-resolution displays also contribute to the thin and light design of ThinkPad T Series notebooks, weighing 70 grams lighter than conventional displays. Users who travel frequently will appreciate the wide dimming range of the LED backlit display. This allows you to reduce brightness while still experiencing a crisp, comfortable display in dim environments such as an aircraft cabin. Finally, to protect the environment, our LED backlit displays are mercury-free.

One major feature the Centrino Pro ThinkPad T61 has over the Centrino Duo R61 is the inclusion of Intel’s Active Management Technology. You get a faster processor front side bus (800MHz), more processor cache (4MB) and an improved integrated graphics solution in the form of the Intel X3100. If all that talk is nonsense to you, then suffice it to say the T61 offers newer and better processing components than the T60.

Battery Life : Thinkpad T61 battery is 6-Cell battery. It can last about 2 hours 15 minutes, check the reduce screen refresh option and you can gain a couple of minutes of battery life, and the interface will show you that approximation. But you d better buy a cheap thinkpad T61 battery replacement in www.laptops-battery.co.uk. The Thinkpad T61 battery also fits for thinkpad R61.

Compare with the prev Thinkpad T Series laptop, The T61 has following advantage

• LED backlit, mercury-free displays
• Dual-core processors consume 10% less power than standard-voltage processors
• 25% cooler and quieter than previous T Series
• Switchable graphics feature uses 15% less power than previous T Series
• SSD drives use 90% less power than standard hard drives
• Low-wattage processor technology (25 watt processors)
• Battery Stretch feature extends battery life and reduces waste
• Reusable packaging is designed for minimum 5 reuses
• Energy Calculator enables you to calculate power savings for your system configuration

In all the ThinkPad T61 Widescreen is the latest in Lenovo’s ThinkPad T-series of world-class laptops that have stood the test of time among corporate professionals. But the transition is now complete – the T61 is the first ThinkPad in PC Pro not to feature the IBM logo at all – and we’re relieved to say that the ThinkPad range is none the worse for it.

If you want to buy a t61 please visit Lenovo.com first.

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