Lenovo Thinkpad T43 Notebook Model 2687D8U (1.8GHz Pentium M Centrino, 512MB, 60GB, DVD?RW, Windows XP, 14.1

80

Very Good

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Pros
Superb battery life
Cons
Difficult to upgrade RAM

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Performance: Very Good: 86
Features: Good: 74
Design: Very Good: 80

Find out how these scores, and their relative weights, combine to produce the PC World Rating.

Performance
ACD Systems ACDSee	670
Adobe Photoshop	366
Adobe Premiere	508
Ahead Nero	1126
Battery Life (Office Applications)	5:02
Discreet 3ds Max DirectX	326
Discreet 3ds Max OpenGL	420
Microsoft Office XP	559
Mozilla	378
Musicmatch Jukebox	577
Number of Included Batteries	1
Roxio VideoWave	443
Windows Media Encoder	463
WinZip	450
World Bench 5 Score	84
World Bench 5 Word Score	Very Good

WorldBench Tests
Multitasking	727

Performance
WorldBench 5: Performance word scores reflect comparisons of notebooks in the same category running the same operating system. See Guide to the Top-Rated Products for more details.	Very Good: 84 (Windows XP Professional)
CPU	1.86-GHz Pentium M 750
Screen size	14.1 inches
System memory	512MB of DDR2 SDRAM
Hard drive	60GB
Graphics	64MB ATI Mobillity Radeon X300
Pointing device	Touchpad, eraserhead
Bays	One
Bundled removable-media drives	One multipurpose bay with DVD±RW/-RAM drive
Floppy drive	None
Ports	Parallel, two USB 2.0, microphone, headphone, S-Video, docking station, PC Card slot, infrared
Communications	V.92 modem, gigabit ethernet, Bluetooth, 802.11g
Business suite	Not applicable
Other features	Fingerprint reader, ExpressCard slot
Overall design	Very Good
Battery life (hours:minutes)	Very Good: 5:02
Weight (typical/minimum, in pounds): Typical weight includes the computer, AC adapter, optical drive, and floppy drive (if offered).	Light: 6.4/5.5
Vendor's reliability/service	Average/Better
Support policy	One-year parts and labor warranty; free unlimited 24-hour daily toll-free support

What You Should Know about the Thinkpad T43 Notebook Model 2687D8U (1.8GHz Pentium M Centrino, 512MB, 60GB, DVD?RW, Windows XP, 14.1

Not Much RAM for Multitasking

The more RAM your laptop has, the faster programs will run and the greater number of windows you can work in at one time. If your needs are simple and you rarely do more than two things at once on your PC, the relatively modest amount of memory that comes installed in inexpensive laptops will be enough. Today the standard amount of RAM shipped in most PCs is 2GB. If you like to multitask--say, you want to launch a search for a file and start backing up data to a disc while you watch a news video--you need more memory.