Looking to buy a W500

Hi all

would like your opinions regarding your W500. Built quality, keyboard flex, screen quality, dead/stuck pixels, performace, support, I am buying it from the UK btw. ohh is the keyboard touch smooth or not? and are the touch buttoms light to touch. .is the touch pad itself responsive.?

I am going to be using it for some 3D design and real time programming. How do you comapre it to Dell's workstations, sony's Vaio quality and Toshiba's. Any information you will provide me with surely will be a great help..

I am worried as Lenovo bought IBM and I am not sure if it is as good as IBM was.

Thanks in advance.

 

The W500 performs nearly identically to the T500 (except the CPU, which has workstation graphics), and has the same chassis. I reviewed the T500 a while ago - the link is in my signature.

The keyboard is excellent on my T500, and the touchpad is also much better than my old laptop's, and is very responsive with no lag whatsoever. I prefer the TrackPoint, though.

 

I agree with MidnightSun. The W500 is a very fine machine in every way. I worried about reports critical of the keyboard, but have not found a problem there, or anywhere really, other than my own questions surrounding Lenovo's software add-ons...Switchable gpu in Vista is great - a big plus for Lenovo compared to Dell.