I previously owned the HP NX 9110, 5.4 inch screen and a heavy laptop, and heavy bulky power supply unit. My next laptop as the company has changed there specs again is now a completely different make IBM.
I have found with the IBM Think pad, the shape and style of the laptop has not changed much from many previous years. Forget style on this occasion though.
The laptop is very light weight and has an amazing battery life. Never as good as a slim line dell for battery life, but its coming on quite good now. I am getting at least 2 hours and I am a heavy user, accessing cd-rom drive, writing cdr's, network traffic all the time etc, loading apps.
The laptop has good performance and great battery life, easy to use keyboard, however getting use to it from a normal desktop keyboard or even another branded laptop keyboard I have been pressing a few keys that I did not intend. Most of the time I am aiming for the Esq key and keep hitting the F1 key cause it's directly below the Esq key. There is a light at the top of the screen lid, and its there to be able to use the keyboard in dark or not so well lit rooms. I have found this just an extra feaure and not useable at all as if the room is slightly dim then the laptop screen lights the keyboard, you know not being so far away and that.
One of the most annoying things I found was the lack of USB ports. 2 ports, on the left hand side, no serial and no PS2. The reason for writing the title, "good for a home user, not business" is because the R52 is dockable. I know that this laptop is not dockable but how are you supposed to plug in a keyboard and mouse if you have an external hard disk and or usb stick. Laptop inventers or manufactuers killed the floppy disk, I have no problem with this (it was old stuff) but now everyone uses usb sticks. So I plug in my usb keyboard (which is more expensive than a ps2 one) and my optical mouse. If I have no cdr's to write too then what do I take out to write to my usb stick.
Another annoying thing is the built in mouse, where is the touch pad. This pencil rubber idea is useable but annoying.
Good features, wired Lan, wireless lan, good battery life, light weight and value for money. Would recommend home user or business person on the move never to dock or try too.
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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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