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IBM-Lenovo Thinkpad T43 Review

Posted by timothy on from the decent-price-too dept.

Mojo-Dog writes "Known as arguably one of the best selling Notebooks in the Corporate sector, IBM's T series of Thinkpad Notebooks has historically earned high marks for its build quality, feature set and general well-rounded performance. HotHardware.com has a review up that takes a close look at the new IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad T43 Notebook. Can IBM pass the Thinkpad's illustrious torch onto Lenovo and make the transition with this new machine? With a 1.73GHz Dothan core Pentium M, an i915PM chipset, DDR2 DRAM and ATi X300 graphics under it's hood, the T43 is looking like a seriously solid offering."

12 comments

  1. Defiantly? by pyrrhonist · · Score: 1
    From the article:
    The top of the notebook has a finer grain texture compared to the R52 we looked at not long ago, but you can defiantly tell it is made of sturdier material

    No one shall dare resist you as you defiantly tell them your notebook is made of sturdier material, DAMMIT!! MUH, HA, HA, HA!!!!

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    1. Re:Defiantly? by Saedrael · · Score: 1

      It's a notebook for carpenters; in a pinch it can be used as a hammer.

    2. Re:Defiantly? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      The speakers on the T43 are basically the same as those used on the R52, which at max volume are reasonably loud, but not what would be considered high fedility of course.


      Considering it's high fedility, I'd say he needs it to be defiant.

  2. AMD is my pick by tacocat · · Score: 1

    Too bad they didn't use AMD CPU's. For the money you pay, they tend to be better. Maybe I missed something on this one, but for all my home computers they've been really excellent.

    1. Re:AMD is my pick by thebudgie · · Score: 1

      Yes you missed the bit where Intel produced the best mobile CPU yet, with low power requirements and decent performance over AMD offerings. I'll admit AMD are doing very well in the desktop market just now, but Intel has the laptop processor market for the moment. There have even been tests where the Dothan CPUs were fitted into desktops and overclocked. They perform extremely well in comparison to any normal processor out there- and at lower wattages too.

    2. Re:AMD is my pick by billcopc · · Score: 1

      Screw performance, what about cost ?

      If one were to establish a base cost per work unit, AMD would slap Intel purple. As a low-budget recovering hacker, I'd rather plop 200$ for the latest and greatest AMD64 chip, than 400$ for an overhyped P4EE "now fitting more useless features on one die". Now all I'm missing is a decent motherboard that's not designed like a Pinto.

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    3. Re:AMD is my pick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You can't do much work when both your batteries are dead and there's no place to charge them.

    4. Re:AMD is my pick by tehcrazybob · · Score: 1

      Now all I'm missing is a decent motherboard that's not designed like a Pinto.

      No, you're also missing comprehension of the post you are responding to. You are comparing AMD desktop CPUs to Intel desktop CPUs, while you are almost certainly responding to an article about a laptop.

      A lot of Slashdot-type people prefer AMD chips to Intel. Intel has market saturation and is the brand most known to the masses, but AMD admittedly has extremely nice desktop chips. However, Intel did something spectacular with the Pentium M processors. They are inordinately powerful at a given clock speed, while maintaining about 1/4 the power consumption of desktop processors.

      Where performance and price are the only issues, AMD has some excellent offerings. However, when you throw power consumption and therefore battery life in, AMD doesn't have anything remotely like the Pentium M.

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  3. About time they put a non substandard GPU in there by IIDX · · Score: 0

    Usually it's some old mobile radeon 7500 w/16 megs.

  4. As a road warrior, the thinkpads are solid. by (H)elix1 · · Score: 1

    I use a t42p, which from the specks looks like it is a better machine than what they reviewed. I'm running 1600x1200 with 2G of RAM, and SuSE picked up all the hardware. Granted, when the t43p comes out, my current daily driver will be the 'old and busted'. I abuse the hell out of my machines, and the only series that has not come down with chronic cement poisoning has been the thinkpad.

    Do yourself a favor and add http://itxt.vibrantmedia.com/ to the adblock list, before looking at the site. God, I hate that intelletext crap.

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  5. Build quality? Performance? Feature set? by cmowire · · Score: 1

    I work at a company that standardized on T-series IBMs.

    First I had a T30. which sucked for a variety of reasons.

    Then there's now a T41 to replace it. Which has a whole new set of problems, like how the VGA port has a noise problem, the DVI port will only do 1280x1024 (apparently mostly because they didn't enable anything higher in the drivers), the docking station's USB ports simply don't work, and stuff.

    I'm not sure if it's just that the alternatives suck even more or that I just keep getting lemon machines.

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