Details Lenovo ThinkPad T60p

Directly from the ultra-utilitarian “business computing” masters at Lenovo comes the ThinkPad T60p. The T60p is a full-sized, full-powered mobile place of work designed for grave calculates on the go. In Lenovo’s own words, this laptop is geared for “premier performance”. Given Lenovo’s solid reputation and the T60p’s inspiring specs, we at Digital Trends wanted to see if the T60p is really as good as it’s made out to be. Appreciate writing on to discover out more about the T60p, what it offers and how it performs.

Features and Design

The Lenovo ThinkPad T60p is a sleek, professional looking laptop that doesn’t skimp on features. Usually reserved for strict business use, this particular ThinkPad is endowed with enough power and grace to find its way into mainstream use, even for creative applications. Inside and out, the T60p has a lot to offer.

The lower-spec T60p comes with a 4:3 aspect 14.1″ screen so ordinary to laptops of yesteryear. The real beauty of the T60p comes out when it’s equipped with the optional WSXGA+ 15.4″ widescreen LCD screen. The 16:9 widescreen ratio is ideal for movies and HD recordings, not to mention wide-format spreadsheets, room for designing 11″x17″ marketing collateral, etc. In todayâ€™s age, laptops not sporting a widescreen LCD are less conducive to productivity and, let’s face it, they’re awfully uncoiled.

The T60p’s 15.4″ widescreen supports a native decree of 1680×1050 pixels. That’s the top standard for 15″ laptops. Even the 15″ MacBook Pro comes with a limiting 1440×900 screen res. One debatable downside is the lack of a glossy screen. I’m sure some people will gag at the idea of a glossy ThinkPad, but an equal or greater number may appreciate it.

Like many laptops on the market these days, the T60p comes with several processor configurations, depending on how much power you need and how much money you want to spend. The base level processor is the 2.0GHz Intel Core Duo. Also available are the 2.16GHz and 2.33GHz Core Duos. The next step up gives users the extra speed and efficiency of Intel’s Core 2 Duo processors; purposely the 2.0GHz, 2.16GHz and 2.33GHz Core 2 Duo. If you can have enough money the 2.33GHz Core 2 Duo processor, Digital Trends highly advocate that you do so. Each of the Core 2 Duo processors is known to be much quicker, more efficient and significantly cooler-running than their Core Duo counterparts.

One of the most imposing and desirable aspects of the T60p is the fact that RAM can be improve as high as 4GB! The Intel 945GM and 945PM chipsets found in unreliable models of the T60p allow for four whole gigabytes of lightning-fast PC2-5300 667MHz RAM. Intel and Lenovo earn major points for this drool-worthy spec.

Build

The Lenovo T60p laptop is a solid, well-constructed business laptop. With the world full of weakly built electronics that might break if breathed upon too hard, it’s nice to know that this Lenovo has some backbone. Of course, the more substantial construction means added weight. The T60p weighs in at 5 lbs. 2 oz. devoid of the battery and 6 lbs. 4 oz. with the battery. Compare this to a 15″ MacBook Pro that weighs 5 lbs. 10 oz. with the battery. The difference is 10 oz. or .625 lbs. This might not seem like a lot on paper, but one’s shoulder surely begins to feel the extra weight when carried for a long time. On the upside, carrying an extra half-pound will help you burn a few more calories all through the day.

Battery

Lenovo claims that the 15.4″ T60p should get upwards of 6 hours of battery life starting from a full charge on the 6-cell battery. 9-cell batteries are supposed to supply upwards of 9 hours, and using the 9-cell battery together with a drive bay battery should give upwards of 11.5 hours. Maybe if you’re running DOS.

In my tests (using a 9-cell battery), I found that the T60p gets good battery life (about 4 hours), but this is nowhere near the Lenovo spec. The only way I was able to coax more uptime from the T60p was to dim the screen way down and prevent use of the CD/DVD drive. So long as data is pulled from or saved to the hard drive and not an external device, the T60p gets much better battery life. For a sturdy, higher-performance 15.4″ laptop, this is clear and totally expected. Turning off the wireless modem also saves a little battery life. The 9-hour claim for a 9-cell battery seems really far-fetched, even for obviously biased marketing material.

In short, if you’re looking for a laptop that will run full-tilt on battery for the period of a cross-country flight, and if this is your primary concern, you’re looking at the wrong type of laptop. You may want to check out some of the X-series ultra-portables made by Lenovo.

The 8x DVD-RW/CD-RW drive is inevitability for on-the-road business. In the T60p, Lenovo supplied a removable “multirecorder”, which is fancy speak for a drive that reads and writes many formats of DVDs and CDs including DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R and even dual-layer DVDs. Additionally, the DVD drive can be removed to allow for an additional bay-shaped battery.

The Lenovo T60p is an outstanding laptop with tons of positive features. It’s fast, relatively battery-efficient and has a gorgeous 15.4″ widescreen LCD with an impressive 1680×1050 screen res. The Hard drive and RAM are upgradeable post-purchase and the built-in DVD burner covers all the popular CD and DVD formats. What can’t be upgraded or improved internally can generally be added as a tangential. The T60p is a very complete package and it is very reliable.

Lenovo ThinkPad laptops are typically marketed towards executives, professionals and mobile “road warrior” types whose careers and economic futures depend on fast, reliable and robust equipment. The T60p is a machine that will satisfy those types of critical needs while still allowing for fun and creativity in between mega merger negotiations. I would totally advocate the T60p for corporate and personal use.

Pros:

(1). Amazing 4GB RAM capacity
(2). Respectable battery life
(3). Vista capable
(4). Super fast Intel Core 2 Duo processor
(5). Biometric security