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Lenovo slowly shifts to meet customer demand

Lenovo's flagship ThinkPad T60 has now received the option of a widescreen display. Widescreen notebooks already dominate Lenovo's non-ThinkPad notebook model lines, so it's only fitting that more widescreen options would filter up to Lenovo's higher-end business models. It should also be noted that rivals HP and Dell have already transitioned the majority of its business notebooks to the widescreen format which makes this move by Lenovo late, but predictable.

The 5.1 pound notebook will features a 15.4" screen available in WXGA and WSXGA+ resolutions and packs Intel Core 2 Duo processors, an ATI Mobility Radeon X1500 GPU and supports up to 4GB of DDR2 memory. Lenovo didn't skimp on wireless options either as Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, 802.11n and 3G WWAN are available on the notebook.

According to Laptop Logic, the 15.4" widescreen T60 will be available today starting at $1,399.

For those wanting to get an early look at the T60, Notebook Review has an article up on the new Lenovo model complete with comparison pictures and benchmarks.

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not sure i understand this obsession
By SLEEPER5555 on 11/28/2006 5:38:19 AM , Rating: 1
why would you want a bigger laptop to carry around?
for gaming i can understand but in a business line thinkpad why?




RE: not sure i understand this obsession
By kelmon on 11/28/2006 6:57:09 AM , Rating: 3
Widescreen aspects are great for comparing documents side-by-side and also are pretty good for watching films when you're travelling to assignments. Personally, I wouldn't buy a laptop without a widescreen aspect these days.

I'm presently running a MacBook Pro 17" and the physical size of the unit is not a problem for me. Quite the opposite, I can't see why anyone would buy a laptop with a 12" or smaller display. This said, these models are very popular so I am sure that people have their reasons in much the same way as I have mine.


RE: not sure i understand this obsession
By Brandon Hill (blog) on 11/28/2006 7:13:54 AM , Rating: 2
I use a dual-core 12" laptop as my sole computer. I love the size as I can transport it anywhere and it works great on flights. It also doesn't way a ton (around 4 pounds) which makes it ideal when walking around all day long at trade shows.

I really can't fathom using anything larger.


By ksherman on 11/28/2006 9:48:51 AM , Rating: 2
Well, I use a 15.4" widscreen, its a great balance between power, size and weight. Granted the one I currently own is not as light as I would like it, nevertheless, it slips nicely into my backpack, and away we go!

I couldn't imagane using anything with a larger or smaller screen ;-)


By sxr7171 on 11/29/2006 8:58:48 PM , Rating: 2
Yes, thank you. I carry an ultraportable 12" 3lb laptop and keep a 24" widescreen monitor at home.

I couldn't imagine carrying anything heavier or larger and I laugh at those classmates of mine who bitch and whine about having to bring their larger laptops to school everyday.

12" gets the job done and being 4:3 doesn't waste space at the sides or reduce the amount of a document I can see on the screen at a time. In fact I spend far more time on my 12" laptop than I do with my 24" desktop even at home when I have a choice.

Wide aspect ratios were designed for film because they are more immersive for people to watch. It fills one's peripheral range of viewing and feels good even if you can't focus on anything but the center of the screen. However in terms of reading, you can only focus on a narrow range in the middle and hence letter paper was designed to be in the "portrait" format as people didn't want to keep moving their eyeballs left and right all the time.

In any case it's good they made a widescreen T60 for the few people who might work more efficiently with that aspect ratio and also for the people who think a widescreen is cooler and who overestimate the amount of time spent watching movies on the laptop.

As for me, they better keep the 4:3 versions of the T-series and the X-series or I will have to start shopping elsewhere.


By littlebitstrouds on 11/28/2006 6:58:04 AM , Rating: 2
Do yourself a favor and click on the review link... there's a whole section for that question


RE: not sure i understand this obsession
By TomZ on 11/28/2006 7:57:39 AM , Rating: 4
quote:
why would you want a bigger laptop to carry around?

In many businesses, a laptop is a "desktop replacement," meaning that the laptop is your only computer. Considering this, the larger screen is pretty helpful.

I still don't get the interest in low-resolution, widescreen displays. My 5-year old ThinkPad has a 15" display and is 1600x1200. I wouldn't want to give up any of that resolution. The WXGA (1366x768) version of this laptop is only giving you about half the number of pixels as my 1600x1200.

As an aside, shame on laptop and display manufacturers for subjecting consumers to all these crazy screen resolution abbreviations - SXGA, WSXGA, WSXGA+, UXGA, WUXGA, etc. - I can't keep them all straight! Why can't they just advertise the number of pixels to keep it simple and make it easy to compare?


RE: not sure i understand this obsession
By Tiamat on 11/28/2006 11:33:33 AM , Rating: 2
Agreed, IBM, Dell, etc should be offering WUXGA resolution on their 15.4" screens. WSXGA+ is a double downgrade in terms of having less pixels on a larger screen.


By GameManK on 11/28/2006 11:57:50 AM , Rating: 2
Be glad they're at least offering WSXGA+! This is one of the first recent <17" laptops I've seen with a resolution that high. All the companies want to rip you off with that WXGA+ crap, even many of the 17" models have it and very few smaller laptops offer higher options. For example, the dell latitude d600/d610 used to offer SXGA+, but when the d620 went wide screen they went down to WXGA+.


By sxr7171 on 11/29/2006 9:00:18 PM , Rating: 2
Sure it is, but in the places where I worked they would have a dock and real monitor with a bigger screen.


RE: not sure i understand this obsession
By tcunning on 11/28/2006 7:37:05 PM , Rating: 2
Let's be clear--just because a screen is "wider," that doesn't mean it's bigger. In fact, many "wide" screens are the same width as a standard aspect ratio screen, but are simply SHORTER, and therefore actually smaller, and cheaper to produce. And that's not better in my book. Wide is great for HDTV, but the last time I checked word processing documents and web pages were still taller than they are wide, and therefore you get more of them on a standard aspect ratio screen. Widescreen notebooks also don't play nice with a lot of projectors, either, which is one of the main reasons I use a laptop in the first place.


By sxr7171 on 11/29/2006 9:02:09 PM , Rating: 2
Yes thank you. The primary driving force to making wider screens is simply cost savings. They are smaller screens and less area than their 4:3 counterparts.


Typo
By fbrdphreak on 11/28/2006 9:21:58 AM , Rating: 3
Available resolutions on the 15.4" are WXGA and WSXGA+; not WXGA+ :)




RE: Typo
By JoKeRr on 11/28/2006 4:41:31 PM , Rating: 2
Surprised to see the ATI sticker is still around. I thought there would be an AMD sticker along with Intel's Core 2 Duo sticker.


man... lenovo go to hell, youre not up to date
By vze4z7nx on 11/28/06, Rating: -1
By sxr7171 on 11/30/2006 1:28:22 AM , Rating: 2
Yeah must suck to be poor and only be able to buy from third rate manufacturers. Try getting an education and then maybe someone will give you a job. Perhaps then you might be able to afford a Thinkpad.

BTW, the word is "aesthetically."


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