I Love The Thinkpad Design

lol I don't consider myself a thin and light guru, but I am more practical. I dislike half baked things. I prefer either lighter, thinner notebooks or super crazy huge notebooks. Notebooks in the middle (15.4, 15.6) aren't much lighter than 17", are less powerful (in terms of what can be offered) as they can't cool as well as a bigger notebook. Now I absolutely love my Vostro, but now it is a mobile gaming rig as it is a bit bulky. I actually went to a lower profile office laptop (which my D620 was) to a Z61t and the ThinkPad offers significantly more battery life, and performs just like the D620. I also got it for 150, so I can't complain.

But using it for ~1.5 weeks now, I absolutely love ThinkPad design, the feel, the keyboard, the battery life, just the entire package.

 

Thinkpad while being thin & light is a win combination except for the premium price (for a consumer like me that is).

Also 15.4 and 15.6 laptops tend to be lighter and thinner than those bulky 17 inch laptops, less prone to overheat, and they have the best of both world (Decent screen size and considerable, portable size).

 

Just wondering, have you ever used a 15" notebook daily for 1+ years? I used my Vostro 1500 through 3 years of college, am I am not going to lie, it is freaking heavy. Starting weight was ~6.5 pounds and with my 9 cell battery and brick it came near 9 pounds. Most 17" start around 7-7.5 pounds so a tricked out 15" isn't that much lighter. And I would say in most cases, 17" notebooks have better cooling as there is more room to route heatpipes, more room for heatfins. Though in my case the way the original Vostro series were designed, seperate heatpipes make it so 17" and 15.4" didn't really make a difference.

But I guess it's really a choice of personal preference. I think 14.1" offers the best balance of portability and power. You still get the higher resolution screens, and 95% of the power of a 15" but lighter. 15" notebooks are a real crapshoot as it depends on which 15" notebook you are talking about.

 

Damn right! It is very heavy as I experienced it with my Acer 5920. As things stand, I am also finding the R400 heavy sometimes!

 

My Toshiba Satellite, a 15.4 for 3 years and before it a 14 Vaio Z1 , a 14 for 3 years as well.

I didn't feel the satellite was too heavy to take around, even though it's stationary at my room most of the time, but when I move it around it doesn't feel that heavy and big.

17 inch laptops as I have heard from a friend of mine who used an old qosmio, was too heavy and big.

So the problem with those 17+ inch laptops is both the weight and most importantly in this case, the dimension of the laptop itself.


And to be honest with you, if you find a 15 inches laptop to be heavy, you really need to weight train more.


And at last, it's down to the user and his/her needs (for my case I need a trusty laptop right now which can last me for many windows OS release and autoCAD work in the future), otherwise I'd consider me a T410s, that machine is damn sexy, sleek and old-school at the same time.

 

Thought the screen unbelievable, I didn't even like taking my R60 around the house, which is how I ended up with an X series notebook.

 

And you know what, the same thing's going to happen to me...the countdown has already started...the X220 threw a spanner in the works for a moment, but I think I have decided on the X201.

 

Those X series are cute, too cute to be a barbarian old-school T-series.

 

Please don't say that. The X220 might be cute, but the X200 and X201 are as "barbarically" tough as any "true" T machines!

Go for it, lineS_of_flight!

 

Thanks. I am going to. And you know what the icing on the cake is? I'm not gonna pay for it. It's a gift. Now the only thing that sucks is that I will have to wait for about 3-4 weeks from the day the order is placed till I get the machine since re-sellers here don't seem to keep stocks on hand and I am not one who will buy a display unit (even if it is discounted). They have to either get it from their central (in-country) warehouse or fly it in from Singapore - at least that's what I have been told. Usually, however, it is the former case.

The version I have opted for comes with a 3-yr IWS. The machine will come with Win 7 Pro 32-bit - which I will immediately replace with the 64-bit version - it will have 4 GB of RAM, either a 320GB or 500GB HDD (which I will retain - SSD is not an option now).

I just hope two things work out:

(1) There is no keyboard flex and other creak-related or panels moving nonsense - I really don't want to relive my previous experience on this matter.

(2) As far as I can see, the warranty says "At Depot". What I would like is "on-site" and I have to see if they will either upgrade me or if it is not too expensive, I may just pay for it.

Yes, I do love the ThinkPad design. But, if you ask me why? I'd be hard-pressed to give you a coherent answer!

 

Hehe.

Seems I am more for a "full-sized" Notebook rather than those Netbook and Netbook-wannabes.

Ain't nothing feels better than a 14+ inches laptop, big, beefy and thick!

 

Netbook-wannabeees? Hahahaha! i5/i7 running Photoshop CS5? Processing RAW images? Netbook-wannabeees? Hahahaha!

I like you, Pochi. You're real funny.

 

I didn't specify what is the definision of a Netbook-wannabe (which in my case, is tablet things like those iPad thingie). Shame on you!

All in all, I have an eternal hate for netbooks and small notebooks, they just look and feel too cute for my taste.

 

Uhh the X220 looks pretty much the same as the larger Thinkpads... how exactly it is "too cute" lol.

 

Smaller, thinner, that thing that the Thinkpad has on their front end of the display lid (which is beautiful) is barely noticable.

It's just too cute for a primitive being like me dammit!

 

Hmm. You mentioned "big, beefy and thick" and then "smaller, thinner, that thing." Are we talking about your ThinkPad and my ThinkPad, or what?

 

What do you imply by "Thinkpad"?


It depense on how you interpret it!

 

Size doesn't matter, it depend on how you use it.

If a smaller notebook is powerful enough to do video editing and other cpu intensive task it's noway is a netbook wannabe.

If a big notebook is only use for surfing the web then it is no better than a netbook.

 

Words of wisdom.

Still I am old-school in that case, bigger is better.

 

Therre's so little space on the X series, the X220 is supposed to be even slimmer, I doubt there's much room for flex. My X200t's keyboard is excellent.

 

keyboard flexing should be a none issue with the X220, since space clearance between the keyboard and the motherboard electronics should be reduced even further. The X220 should also be using the new T and W series keyboard, which is torsionally stiffer than the X2x0 keyboards.