Lenovo Thinkpad T500 (NJ28WMH)

EDIT20140104 (1500 Page views (?) And Windows 8.1) This is more of an "impression" than an objective review. If you have any questions, mail or call if you my number . More to come. [EDIT] More apparently have coming. Meanwhile, I have a company and use the ThinkPad as parade paardtje. At this time there especially enjoy the C2D P8700 just on the slow side, but feels that customers NOT notice. .. SSD. There is now an extra 3 cell battery in the UltraBay. With a total of 12 cells, he gets under full use (which happens faster under High Performance, 2.5 hours. I believe it's the 'scalling' of eg Windows 8 + hardware support under 'Power Saver' and 3 can be sometimes. 4 hours removed I have a ThinkPad chosen because of the durability that I associate with the brand "ThinkPad". I now use more than six months and not go to waste it. He goes on a journey between the books in suitcases / bags between the clothes and he stands somewhere between the clutter on the desk. [EDIT] In this area, especially now that he changed it goes to the sea and I'm even less careful. CPU is spacious enough. I can not programs imagine that I would say it needs a better CPU. GPU in there against is not strong compared with a Geforce 9600M I see myself as a minimum, you want the next year, the latest games still reasonable can play. This could be a reason for me to see for my next laptop. away entirely from Lenovo The price per GPU " is much too high. This I really knew at purchase. [EDIT] The presence of the GPU is substantially in the future proof of guarantee. Super happy that I can substantiate a practical example of this now. I have the laptop for about a week with the standard memory and hard drive. I now have 4 GB of DDR3 RAM and WD Black (7200 rpm). This I see myself as a minimum for good 'Windows Experience'. (It is not a necessary upgrade!). [EDIT] upgrade ~ 201302: Intel SSD 180 GB, 8 GB of RAM , I think a big advantage of Lenovo unfortunately an immediate disadvantage and that is the different programs that Lenovo used as the GPS HD Shock Protector, changing GPU, GPU switching and wireless connection manager. All very good programs but they make sure that the laptop needs 2 minutes to boot. I myself am (was) a lot in the process of searching for better drivers or later versions of programs (assuming that these are better) Lenevo has a tool that does this. Summit I find this. I have the idea that Lenovo has realized that word of mouth precise content and that there is a chance that you may want to buy as a customer. Later more Lenovo What I mean is that it seems that Lenovo puts extra energy in order to ensure that you have the best possible experience on your PC. Even after your purchase. On the other hand, this is allowed even if you look at the still very high purchase price. The T500 has two GPUs, Intel and ATI. This care one little hour battery (100%) expensive. the battery time to "Low Performance" (CPU 30%) while writing this review and Intel Graphics; 5:05 and 4:23 on ATI. (All wireless connection, 104 processes, average CPU usage of 9% (Low Performance)). There is an Intel WiFi Link 5300. This has two antennas and can thus pumping about 300 Mbit wireless n and, most importantly, has a better range. Big advantage in buildings that do not always have a seamless wireless network. [EDIT] I've underestimated how important this is. Still pass the laptops revu who simply have poor range. To have better .. 7 years earlier invested more The laptop is silent. I rarely hear the laptop cool. The DVD player is not. [EDIT] DVD player lost two months after I had my SATA UltraBay adapter. The laptop is still silent. He makes enough noise to a movie (DVD) look to be. disturbing on the laptop I experience this personally as a problem. DVD writing is still an uncertain science, to be sure ~ verify that if I write a DVD it is also readable, use an external DVD burner that I share with the house. It is itself so that I think about for the DVD drive to get out (Lenovo Ultra Bay) and replace it with a 'thing' that I still have a hard disk can do in there to do next as a primere my WD HD to use it. SSD But that's way off my wallet told me .. I'm in September the latest Ubuntu is put on. This we used to know, learning to work in the console and Latex Linux. It ran without any problems. The ATI 3650 would be problematic (the Elite Books that were distributed by the University), they would be very hot. Here I have not noticed, but maybe that's because you do not hear the cooling and no sensible heat concentration in a certain place. For fun, I also tried the Intel mess and are recognized without problems. If you drag a window with the Intel stuff he can not render properly. If you let go of the window then it looks good again. Shame this model in between is no longer available and this review therefore has little value. Perhaps it may be better to rename Lenovo advertising. [EDIT] Again, I question the value of this page Tweakers.net. I'm really proud of my brick. The only thing I have to mention is that my internal GPS and associated hardware is not recognized in 8.1. Was at sea is a GPS on a decent laptop with 5 hours of battery life really enjoy. Hope AMD once wake up on the mobile GPU market and have some fun shows. If that happened, like Lenovo's GPU baker better GPU will offer Lenovo might be tempted to use it too and we get graphically powerful ThinkPads. Otherwise I buy an Asus next. [EDIT] I believe now that is exactly what AMD on the market and I have a new laptop gepermiteerd. [EDIT] The fingerprint reader I forgot when drawing. I most underrated in value with the wifi. As far as I can remember, I have always used the fingerprint reader as a kind of "direct login" function. I use my index finger as a boot password, fingerprint reader passes it to Windows, Windows logs the user in properly. Unfortunately, that only I can turn on the laptop. seems now Windows 8 and related equipment drivers find it sufficient. The laptop, however, started in 20s and 1s from hibernation, briefly: he does not go out to the customer. Problem solved. Backup BIOS password without my index finger "is always possible. ---- For the additional memory to prick it with me to open the laptop screws. Beautiful it looks from the inside. The soundness radiates out. Unfortunately I then any pictures . [EDIT] HP EliteBook come-in my experience-near