I <3 My Thinkpad

[Ashpool]

Late coming thread, but I just had to post about this (school. I've been busy as Hell trying to get my grades up to transfer).

I got a new ThinkPad R51 as a VERY late graduation present beginning of the month, and so far I love the thing. It was around $1100 after shipping on Newegg along with a few network essentials. I've only got one port for me in my dorm room and I want to share files between my rig and the new baby

What I love about it the best is the clean and simple design behind it. It's not plastic-y like almost every other laptop out there and I swear this thing is built completely out of metal. At least I know the monitor hinges are (has IBM changed their design whatsoever from years before?). There's also the insane reliability that IBM crammed into it - everything from the hundreds of backup methods to the hardware protection built into it. Outside of Apple is there any other laptop manufacturer that has active hard drive protection?

It's not much inside it though - 1.6GHz, 256MB, 20GB. It's still damn thin and not bad for what's under the hood, but it could really use some more RAM. After a small bunch of windows are open the hard drive starts swapping.

I was originally contemplating an iBook instead of this, but I don't think I would have been too happy with it compared to this. I'm too used to WinXP and I'm sure I couldn't do half of what I'd want with this than I could on that - I'm an IT Student. I've still got the capability to F around in OSX, I've got an old iMac DV that needs its monitor fixed.

[hongsc]

Congrats on the purchase! I'm stuck on whether to get a Dell 700m or IBM R or maybe T series.

[PCJ]

If IBM wasnt so stupidly expensive here, I would have gotten one instead of my iBook. Enjoy it

[kpxgq]

hands down.. if you have the money... thinkpads are the highest quality pc-based laptops available

[pudad]

Nice, if there are 2 lines of laptop I love it is the Thinkpads and the Powerbooks! Sometimes I wish IBM would make some PPC thinkpads. It would be cool if somebody other than apple supported the architecture.

[freedon]

Originally posted by Ashpool
Outside of Apple is there any other laptop manufacturer that has active hard drive protection?

As in physical protection? Dell latitude.

Its nice to hear IBM are good. I've used IBM from the 1999-2001 and they SUCK!! Most complicated thing on earth to reinstall drives...IF you even find them. Reformating is the easy part, the after-windows aspect is not.

E390 comes to mind

BTW these were sold at my old school, so I guess they were the consumer models and the not the business. Cheap school..so they wouldn't sell the good ones.