Lenovo ThinkPad T60

81

Very Good

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Pros
Excellent keyboard
Great battery life
Cons
No memory card slots

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Performance: Very Good: 85
Features: Very Good: 81
Design: Very Good: 86

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

Performance
Adobe Photoshop CS2	769
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 DirectX	458
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 Rendering	844
Battery Life (Video Playback in hh:mm)	4:56:06 AM
Doom 3, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	23.77
Far Cry, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	70.85
Firefox 2	376
Microsoft Office 2003 with SP-1	406
Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9.0	281
Multitasking	469
Nero 7 Ultra Edition	1386
Number of Included Batteries	1
Roxio VideoWave Movie Creator 1.5	251
Winzip Computing WinZip 10.0	434
WorldBench 6 Score	69
WorldBench 6 Word Score	Very Good

What You Should Know about the ThinkPad T60

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.

Reviewed by: ronin

Duration of ownership: 4 Months

Strengths: Nice display, solid build.

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

Overall Evaluation: 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

Duration of ownership:

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

Weaknesses: Not found yet.

Overall Evaluation: 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!