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Honestly, I would have gone for a Powerbook if I had known it would have cost that much.

But, that's the company standard now: Boring black IBM laptops.]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/lenovos-ev-do-z60t-thinkpad-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/lenovos-ev-do-z60t-thinkpad-reviewed/Dec 19th 2005 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/lenovos-ev-do-z60t-thinkpad-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/lenovos-ev-do-z60t-thinkpad-reviewed/Dec 19th 2005 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/lenovos-ev-do-z60t-thinkpad-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/lenovos-ev-do-z60t-thinkpad-reviewed/
So, lets say if the keyboard breaks on an IBM (which it won't :0 ) they'll replace it free of charge and you'll recieve it in a few business days. My friend once dropped a hole-punch on his keyboard and cracked a key. He called IBM about it and he recieved a package the next morning at 10:00am.]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/lenovos-ev-do-z60t-thinkpad-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/lenovos-ev-do-z60t-thinkpad-reviewed/
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I guess it's all about brand identity... I wonder how the titanium is selling against black.]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/lenovos-ev-do-z60t-thinkpad-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/lenovos-ev-do-z60t-thinkpad-reviewed/Dec 19th 2005 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/lenovos-ev-do-z60t-thinkpad-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/lenovos-ev-do-z60t-thinkpad-reviewed/
Various ThinkPads have used titanium covers (only behind the standard black shell) for some time now. Indeed, IBM was the first major vendor to use titanium in their laptop line, followed by Apple. And unlike Apple's later foray into titanium with weak WiFi, IBM engineered the ThinkPads with screen embedded antennas that get excellent wireless reception.

That said, I agree with your concern over the whole EVDO idea. I'd be wary of paying for integrated laptop hardware that ties you to data contracts with one, at best two, companies.]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/lenovos-ev-do-z60t-thinkpad-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/lenovos-ev-do-z60t-thinkpad-reviewed/Dec 19th 2005 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/lenovos-ev-do-z60t-thinkpad-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/lenovos-ev-do-z60t-thinkpad-reviewed/Dec 19th 2005 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/lenovos-ev-do-z60t-thinkpad-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/lenovos-ev-do-z60t-thinkpad-reviewed/Fingerprint reader
Active protection system - nothing like having to replace your harddrive once you dropped your laptop.
A more rigid chassis. Heck, the Z's have a freakin' internal cage to protect the components and a new spill tray under the keyboard to channel your Big Gulp out the front of the case and keep it off your motherboard.

There simply too many things to list here, so go read for yourself.

Z Series features - http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/thinkpad/zseries/index.html

Thinkpad liturature - http://www5.pc.ibm.com/us/me.nsf/LenovoInfo?OpenAgent&key=Thinkpad+Literature&&cntry=US-L

OT - Sure would be nice if html or UBB worked here.]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/lenovos-ev-do-z60t-thinkpad-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/11/lenovos-ev-do-z60t-thinkpad-reviewed/
I want to dispell some myths:

Cost: Do you rely on your laptop every day for your job? Do you need the internet to carry on being a professional? If you do, the extra few hundred pounds a thinkpad costs will pay you back in ways that only an economist could measure. Think of the cost of not having access to your data, emails, work tools and internet for one day, or even for a week? How much would that cost you : in terms of inconvenience and added expense of getting around this, in terms of your career, in terms of having free time to do other things?

Thinkpads also come with excellent warranties, so if your thinkpad should break down, they are so helpful that the problem shouldn't impact you too much.

Performance: When you friends laptops are having trouble with their screen going dark, or the laptop overheating and crashing, or windows crashing unexpectantly, or freezing up for odd reasons, and then having the motherboard melt because the fan had stopped working, or it's been sent back for the 3rd time after the 1 year warranty just ran out, whose's laptop is faster? Overall, the thinkpad, because it keeps working! O.k., so I'm exagerating, but you get the idea.

Performance also depends on what you use your laptop for. I use mine for Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop (as a hobby) and Outlook Express, Internet explorer and Adobe Acrobat. My 1.3Ghz centrino processor is still going strong, and handles all the above with ease, as well as playing my music at the same time. Even photoshop runs surprisingly fast. But for gaming it's probably rubbish.

I've had my T40 thinkpad for 2 years now, and I'm so happy with it, that I now regard some other laptops as being a bit like over-priced, plastic toys. But, of course, there are other excellent laptops out there - Latitudes, Powerbooks, Tecras and other top-line ranges.

Duncan.]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:31AM