Advantages: Fast and reliable Disadvantages: Screen could be better, not the best design
...world of insurance Toshiba and Lenovo are spelt the same?). Needless to say the chances of me renewing my policy with them are somewhere between sweet FA and Nil.
However rant and rage over with here are my opinions and observations of the R61 thinkpad.
FIRST IMPRESSIONS
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When I first opened the box, my first impression was "Oh my god!, it's come from the Lada car factory. The design has all the finesse of a 1980's ... ...name around, I had not linked it to the IBM brand. However as soon as you look the laptop, it is instantly recognisable as an IBM Thinkpad. Sadly though not in a good way, The keyboard and general layout do look very dated.
The only plus point here is that it does seem to be very well built and sturdy enough to take the odd few knocks and scrapes.
SPECIFICATIONS
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Thankfully the performance of the laptop is far better ...
cindyhigham 30.01.2008
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Advantages: Sturdy Disadvantages: Looks very backdated, slow and Very Heavy
This laptop is a dinosaur, and I don’t mean T-Rex dinosaur I mean Brontosaurus as it big, heavy, and slow and deserves to be extinct. This laptop looks and feels as though it should be in a museum. It looks like it was designed in the 1980s and feels awful to use. It is about the same weight as a brick if not heavier.
There is one advantage and that is it looks very robust. It looks like it would survive being dropped from the top of a building, ... ...this and I don't urge you to try this either). I have not used these laptops for long but I am guessing, from using previous IBM think pads (as that’s what they are but under a different name), that they will last for a very long time.
The version I have used is single core processor so that might be why it is slow but i have just turned it on from a fresh build and they usually are faster than that for a new laptop.
Overall the design is poor ...
Honeymonstar 10.03.2009
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(+) cool and quite robust trackpad, good display,64-bit windows 7 (-) few connectors,dell drivers only, not realy for gameing (most models), finger print prone!
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