Lenovo ThinkPad T60

Lenovo ThinkPad T60

ThinkPad T60 Review, by Carla Thornton May 10, 2007

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• Latest User Reviews 1 review
• Reviewed by: ronin

  Duration of ownership: 4 Months

  Strengths: Nice display, solid build.

  Weaknesses: The most unstable POS I've ever used.

  Overall: This laptop and a few others in my office are the most unstable POS I've ever used or seen. My T60 constantly blue screens coming out of hibernation. Every few days it decides it didn't really hibernate, does a full boot and resets all of my display settings. I put the machine into hibernation manually and wait for it to power down before putting it in my laptop bag.Without doing this, I have found that a few times the laptop had remained powered on in my laptop bag. Should have let it fry itself. Two coworkers' machines freeze at least once a day, requiring a power off and reboot. Of the 5 T60's in our office only one is trouble free. All machines must either be powered off or in hibernation when plugging into the docking stations. We have found that docking w/ the laptops running will cause the machines to freeze frequently. BIOS and windows are updated to latest on all machines. Would not recommend this machine to anybody.... If it was possible to give these machines "0" rating that's what it deserves. Unfortunately "1" is as low as you can go.

• Reviewed by: carnition

  Strengths: top line product, noble and decent, powerful and stable. the best of all, very reliable.

  Weaknesses: Not found yet.

  Overall: The design looks good, black and slim, seems to be very noble and decent. I bought 2 HP ones before, and returned both because of the hard disk noises. but this t60 is running very quietly, no strange noise from the hard disk. My son accidently dumped half bottle of juice inside the keyboard, still running like before, except several keys becoming a little sticky. Amazingly tough!

• Reviewed by: scottrm20

  Strengths: Light weight, nice screen, build like a laptop should be

  Weaknesses: no dvi, tv tuner, card reader

  Overall: This laptop is great for business use. I have this laptop with 2 gb of memory for added speed and reliability. I would recommend the 2gb, I'm going to be looking at an external hard drive due to using VM software and it's demand on the hard drive.

• Reviewed by: vincechiu

  Strengths: Wide screen - WSXGA+Build of quality

  Weaknesses: Not the top performanceMore expensive

  Overall: Purchase Thinkpad mainly for its reliability. Previous HP laptop kept getting Blue Screen or freeze when overheating. So would like to spend more to get a solid/reliable laptop. Here Thinkpad comes into place. Choose wide screen 1680x1050; give me more desktop to work on. The overall build of quality is excellent and it's been getting good reputation among business users though not built in mind of consumer-oriented or top performance. Will report back after a long period of real-world usage.

• Reviewed by: chriswoodut

  Strengths: Widescreen, fingerprint scanner, built in security chip, high resolution

  Weaknesses: Battery life, docking station

  Overall: I replaced my IBM Thinkpad R61 with the Lenovo Thinkpad T60, widescreen, dual core 2.0 ghz, 802.11 a/b/g/n. I really liked my R61 with only one small gripe -- if I put some pressure near the touchpad on the right side, the cursor would drift on occasion. This same problem exists on the T60. My R61 was a solid system, and I really enjoyed it.The T60 is about the same weight, it claims a 6 hour battery life, has dual-core, etc. I thought this would be a great upgrade when I accidentally killed my R61. This is a good laptop, but I have had it lock up maybe 6 times in the past 4 weeks, usually when coming into or out of sleep mode/hibernation mode. The first couple of weeks I had it, it would disable the wireless adapter when plugged into the docking station, which was great. However, after a software update it no longer disables the wireless and I cannot manually disable the wireless when connected to the docking station (it says it can't do it). If I plug my laptop into the docking station when it is already on and running, the keyboard won't switch to the external keyboard (but the monitor and mouse do). I have to put it into sleep mode and back out to get the keyboards right. My docking station with my R61 didn't do this.All the specs I saw on this unit claimed 6 hours of battery. I even found a review online that said the person had tested it at 5 hours and 45 minutes with the wireless running. The battery is actually about 2 hours and 45 minutes with the wireless running. I have yet to figure out the difference between their claim and my experience.