If you've been bugging your corporate IT department for a new laptop, try to hold off a few more days before making the final push, because Lenovo is set to upgrade its Z-series line of ThinkPad notebooks with dual-core processor options on Tuesday. Both the
14.1-inch Z60t and 15.4-inch Z60m will be bumped to the Z61t and Z61m, respectively, and offer three varieties of Core Duo procs (maxing out at the 2.0GHz T2500) or two flavors each of the Core Solo or Celeron M chips. All the other specs on both models seem to remain unchanged: you still get WXGA widescreen displays (at the minimum), integrated graphics (along with the option of upgrading to ATI Radeon cards in the m), 256MB of RAM to start, your choice of hard drive capacities and speeds, all three 802.11 standards, optional Bluetooth, and of course, the option of built-in EV-DO which have made the Z-series so popular. No word yet on exact pricing for these new models, but you can expect them to start around the same price points as the Z60 models did when they were first released.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Brad @ May 14th 2006 1:05PM
Finally, I've been waiting to get a Z60t, but was holding off for a core duo version. Now I don't have to wait anymore.
Jon @ May 14th 2006 2:56PM
Man, it figures after I buy one off of eBay...
Matthew @ May 15th 2006 12:44AM
I've known about this for weeks via my university's computing office.
EJ @ May 15th 2006 11:57AM
I got mine last Thursday! Argh. They wouldn't spring an extra $500 for the Duo any way, but still. . . .
Daniel A. Munz @ May 16th 2006 10:52AM
So is it now clear that the z61t will NOT have an ATI graphics card? I like the Z series, but if I have to go for the heft of a z61m to get the ATI card, I'd just as soon go for the T60.