There's this thing I really like about my current Thinkpad, which is that I can run it all day long on its 9-cell + Ultrabay batteries. I realize there's a subset of business apps that require some amount of 3D horsepower. Those users are already served by proper portable workstations. If you want to game, buy a desktop or, if you must, a notebook that's optimized with the stupid crap that gamers want, like enormous speakers and 11-minutes-on-a-charge battery lifespans. Thinkpad T-series notebooks are damned near perfect for their intended purpose as semi-rugged, reconfigurable business machines, and adding an enormous waste of power, creator of waste heat and source of additional system failures such as most GPUs is really at odds with that purpose.
I hope you're aware of this feature called "switchable graphics". The on-board Intel is for you, the discrete powerhouse is for the rest of us. And if you're so interested in battery life, get a T400s or X301 rather a 15" behemoth.
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Come on Lenovo, give us the bloody OLED already. And while you're at it, get some HD4xxx graphics cards in there!
There's this thing I really like about my current Thinkpad, which is that I can run it all day long on its 9-cell + Ultrabay batteries. I realize there's a subset of business apps that require some amount of 3D horsepower. Those users are already served by proper portable workstations. If you want to game, buy a desktop or, if you must, a notebook that's optimized with the stupid crap that gamers want, like enormous speakers and 11-minutes-on-a-charge battery lifespans. Thinkpad T-series notebooks are damned near perfect for their intended purpose as semi-rugged, reconfigurable business machines, and adding an enormous waste of power, creator of waste heat and source of additional system failures such as most GPUs is really at odds with that purpose.
I hope you're aware of this feature called "switchable graphics". The on-board Intel is for you, the discrete powerhouse is for the rest of us. And if you're so interested in battery life, get a T400s or X301 rather a 15" behemoth.