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Okay, T61P came, it's missing UWB and WWAN, had ITM. Fins on back port next to power cord are bent, i bent them back out with a knife, not sure about what to do with it. Here's pics.
Also purchased were the ultrabay battery, 2x 9 cell batteries, and the DVD multiburner, shown on my warcraft 3 cd case.
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Okay Update- Mini Review!
LCD- seems bright enough, I appreciate the 1920x1600, clarity is fantastic. Screen doesn't wobble like my Vaio, no flex.
Fingerprint Reader- Simple enough to use, took me 5 tries to get my right ring finger. I don't know why it didn't work.
Keyboard- dream, real nice, solid, quality feeling, full stroke, definitely ergonomic and easy to find each key. non-clackety like my dinovo space bar from logitech. Full size keyboard means really easy to use hotkeys in videogames, because it doesn't change locations from your desktop. Also means you don't accidentally type/select/delete something, as is happens when your del, backspace, enter, shift, and control are all shrunken like the vaio.
Right Side- 2 USB Ports, DVD-R.
Left Side- 1 USB Port, 1 exhaust port, vga, ethernet/modem, mic/headphones, and express card. I think i may need to stick a WWAN in there.
RAM- upgraded ram using NBR's official ram link from Stallen's sig. 4GB of ram from ewiz.com, kinda wish I knew what ram it was that allows me to get the 5.0 and above rating for ram when vista first came out, I thought my ram was plenty fast, it's micron memory. Removed 4 screws on the bottom of the laptop, removed palm rest, detached connector, took out RAM, then installed. Laptop came with 2x512mb of Hynix.
Weight- All weights include laptop plus that accessory.
-6.6lb. with 9 cell and DVD-rom
-6.6lb. with 9 cell and ultrabay
-6.2lb with 9 cell solo
-5.6lb with ultrabay solo
I guess conclusions are that if you wanna go light, take only the ultrabay at 5.6. I will probably be taking both 9 cells and the ultrabay with me to class, leaving my ROM at home for installation or for playing WC3.
Advanced Mini-Dock-
-I like the angle of typing.
-Fits in real nice
-DVI works, as it should.
Other notes
-Missing UWB and WWAN. I guess I need to use express card for WWAN.
-Fits in my Louis Vuitton Messager in Sable. a 1515.00 laptop bag you can get for 1300.00 in Hawaii due to no sales tax and cheaper prices. Also fits my NorthFace Recon2 Backpack, however, 9 cell must come out. I suggest you carry the battery in a separate pouch.
-Exhaust port fins bent on side closest to AC socket. Bent them back out a bit with a knife, but they're definitely damaged by the installer. Makes me want to get the on-site just to have someone replace the fins.
-Doesn't fingerprint easily
-Didn't find any real spamware, only uninstalled Microsoft pre-install to install my own academic/professional version.came with 31.7GB used out of 100GB. This number includes the approximately 1.6 gig for Microsoft Office+ OneNote, and WC3. I still have 54.3GB free of 86.0 gig. It seems the hidden partition hides 14gb of something.
-All in all really happy with the build quality. Kind like the day I bought my DW drums satin oil finish drumset/zildjian a-custom and k-custom cymbals/DW9000 hardware, or my myrtle/port orford cedar Goodall guitar. Now I have nothing to buy, and can focus on paying off things =)
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Lower resolution? No way! That high res is why I ordered this sucker!
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thanks!
one switch for wifi, couldn't find a wwan switch, apparently my machine doesn't have it. bt is a software config under thinkvantage utilities. for all the people that did clean install, i couldn't figure out why that'd be necessary, I only took out the microsoft office install, didnt' really see any other weird third party apps.
it's kinda weird, when at full brightness, the screen appears dimmer, but my room looks darker. when at lowest brightness, the screen appears brighter, but so does the room. see attached pics. the brighter background has the dimmer screen. both pics were taken with the focus in the middle of the screen. I kinda like the UXGA, at first I didn't think could handle the small font, but I realize I sit kinda close up to my laptop anyway, and i increased my screen fonts to large, and my screen icons to medium, the large screen icons are cute and funny but too big to look at long term.
runs warcraft 3 like a dream (like it should) running wc3 on a 1500.00 costco vaio = the suck. no lag whatsoever, using all details.
My cpu max frequency is 100%. what does this mean?
beautiful isn't it? it makes me focus and work better!
yeah i like that too. i especially like how the exhaust ports are in the back, and on the back left side, my vaio had its only port next to the dvd burner on the right side, it freaking burned my hand when i used a mouse. talk about a design flaw
Well, i don't really run the thing on my lap, it's a lil warm on the left bottom side of it, haven't really experienced any palm wrest flexing or heating.
thanks, and i got the lenovo off of stallen's sig's link to NBR's official RAM guide. I bought from ebiz.com Only thing that saddens me is my ram performance goes only to 4.8,and not the full 5.0 which represents the fastest ram possible out of all ram available at the creation of vista. I wonder what the fastest ram is, guys?
Mine didn't come with USB because this was a just in case order when i found out my laptop got stuck in ordering on about 8/7.Attached Files:
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Is that the receiver of a VX Revolution in one of your pics
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I think so. My VX Revolution has the same size receiver.
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Kebs, mind getting actual dimensions of the laptop + 9cell?
The anticipation is killing me
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For a notebook mouse, it's very comfortable!.. ahh getting OT here.. let's somehow relate this to your Thinkpad. Oh, I know!
.. Currently the red trackpoint on my T41 that I'm using right now is dirty. The raised rubber portions on the trackpoint have turned from the red colour to a nice brown. This is due to the fact that I prefer to use the trackpoint over the touchpad. So what I did was ran out to buy a notebook mouse that goes well with the Thinkpad. The VX rev. seemed to be a good choice. The black/silver accents do match well .. but the build of the mouse doesn't par up the Thinkpad.
Do you find that when you move the mouse fast with the gears on, or when you move the mouse at all with the gears off, parts inside the mouse rattle? -
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T61P Pictures (Mine) Arrived 8/13/07
Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Kebs, Aug 14, 2007.
