http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/ Engadget Comments for Lenovo slaps Windows 7 onto ThinkPad SL410 and SL510 http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/Oct 21st 2009 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/Oct 21st 2009 11:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/Oct 21st 2009 11:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/Oct 21st 2009 11:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/Aside from evolutionary changes to keep pace with technology and use cases, Lenovo doesn;t really need to alter the Thinkpad for visual design fads. That s what the Ideapad line is for.]]>Oct 21st 2009 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/Oct 21st 2009 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/Chiclets look nice, but dont give the same feedback from a "proper" keyboard
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I had an older IBM ThinkPad and now I have a cursed SL500, and there is no comparison in the keyboards between them.

Supposedly, even the higher-end models now have unpredictable keyboard suppliers - they seem to just use whatever they have around. But some people are still getting lucky and getting the NMB keyboards, which are the good ones.]]>Oct 21st 2009 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/Oct 21st 2009 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/Oct 22nd 2009 3:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3GaZ3B7hXM]]>Oct 21st 2009 11:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/Oct 21st 2009 11:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/
The GMA4500 is a pretty good GPU for an integrated GPU.
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As for this IBM's... ahem, Lenovo's laptop, its design is looking too mid 90's. Hey if Sony can make their laptops look super cool and futuristic, there's no reason why Lenovo could at least try. Unless of course, you're the kind of person that has a fear for aesthetics.]]>Oct 21st 2009 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/Oct 21st 2009 4:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/Oct 21st 2009 5:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/Oct 21st 2009 12:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/Oct 21st 2009 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/Oct 21st 2009 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/
I'm sure I sound like a broken record in these threads, but there are still a lot of people out there who don't realize this and I would hate for one of them to buy one of these things thinking they're going to get real ThinkPad quality and features. I fell into that trap myself and would have returned my machine immediately if Lenovo's return policy on CTO machines wasn't so ridiculously awful. (There basically is no return policy on CTO. They'll fix it, but they won't take it back.)

I guess I should not have expected classic TP quality for $560... but then I didn't expect Lenovo to basically falsely advertise these machines by calling them ThinkPads when they're not either.]]>Oct 21st 2009 2:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/Oct 21st 2009 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/Oct 21st 2009 1:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/Oct 21st 2009 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/Oct 21st 2009 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/Oct 21st 2009 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/Oct 21st 2009 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/Oct 21st 2009 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/
The benefit of *most* ThinkPads, or at least *some* ThinkPads since Lenovo took over, is that they are ridiculously rugged, they never break, they're not overloaded with junk software, they (still) come with a matte screen *standard*, they have a roll cage, they have a keyboard light, they have the most wondrous keyboards ever on a laptop (not so much anymore, but this is traditionally a reason people buy ThinkPads), they have TrackPoint (which yes, some people really like), and they are fully user-maintainable - almost nothing voids the warranty short of repeatedly smashing your ThinkPad on a cement sidewalk or running it over with your car. When you call them because you're having a problem, they will actually *tell* you to take your machine apart.

Lenovo in their infinite wisdom has been gradually erasing most of those benefits, but some of them still exist, and in a few models, most of them still exist.

As for them being "ugly", some of us think function over form is a beautiful thing.
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"The benefit of *this* ThinkPad is basically nil, except that cosmetically you don't look like an utter tool like you do carrying around a lot of other modern laptops. ThinkPads are for people who are less interested in looking like a metrosexual and more interested in doing real work."

Dude, that was the most blatant, closet-homo statement I've ever seen in Engadget.


By the way, we live in 2009, it's OK to own computing products that get the work done and look great at the same time. Like, you know, Sony Vaios, MacBook Pros, iPhones, etc)]]>Oct 21st 2009 4:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/
So, did get you get the 20" spinners mounted on your Civic yet?]]>Oct 21st 2009 7:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/
hmmmm......maybe i need to purchase one of these.]]>Oct 21st 2009 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/Oct 21st 2009 4:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/Oct 21st 2009 6:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/lenovo-slaps-windows-7-onto-thinkpad-sl410-and-sl510/Oct 22nd 2009 6:38PM