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RE: RE: What Kind of Laptop is best?
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Originally posted by Dazzy
Thinkpads ftw.
Yeah, perhaps if multimedia features are not an issue. I have a 14.1" Thinkpad T61 from June 2007. It's sturdy, handy, fast and all... But the crippled sound card is enough to make me steer clear of Lenovo in the future. Forget about being able to actually hear the audio of Youtube videos in a room with other people making quiet conversation. The problem is not the speakers, as they will play somewhat loudly if the source is loud enough. The f***ing driver simply won't let you turn up the volume sufficiently.
By comparison, my mom's Dell Inspiron with its front-mounted laptop speakers offers deafening voume with just about any sound source. :)

Also, music playback occasionally "skips", for instance if you drag a window on the desktop. Had the 7200rpm harddrive replaced on warranty to try and fix this issue, but the probled has not completely gone away.

Also, your only record input is options are the microphone and Line In. No WAV/MP3 or Stereo Mix option! This means no (practical) way of sending what you're currently listening to via Messenger - this happens to annoy me beyond belief. This can only be solved by getting an external sound card (trust me, I've turned every stone).

Also, the screen is pretty lousy - brightness wise. My mom's Dell screen is far superior. None of the two compared screens is glossy.

I knew the Thinkpad was a business-aimed laptop, but I thought this mostly meant extra sturdiness and not necessarily much less multimedia functionality. I would have got something without "Thinkpad" in its name knowing what I know today...
Sadly, I don't expect it to break anytime soon - it is, after all, a Thinkpad ;)

Someone mentioned overheating. I don't find this to be a problem (only when using it in bed, cuttinf off the air intake), however, the power supply tends to get fairly hot.

Check out http://www.notebookreview.com/

This post was edited on 06-09-2008 at 04:03 PM by ZrednaZ.
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What Kind of Laptop is best? - by matt on 03-22-2008 at 02:42 AM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by Voldemort on 03-22-2008 at 04:34 AM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by markee on 03-22-2008 at 04:50 AM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by RebelSean on 03-22-2008 at 05:51 AM
RE: RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by matt on 03-22-2008 at 07:41 AM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by Th3rmal on 03-22-2008 at 07:47 AM
RE: RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by matt on 03-22-2008 at 07:55 AM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by blackjack on 03-22-2008 at 07:59 AM
RE: RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by matt on 03-22-2008 at 05:29 PM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by Kenji on 03-22-2008 at 10:27 AM
RE: RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by ZrednaZ on 06-09-2008 at 03:49 PM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by Nathan on 03-22-2008 at 12:01 PM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by absorbation on 03-22-2008 at 12:48 PM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by albert on 03-22-2008 at 01:13 PM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by Eddie on 03-22-2008 at 01:28 PM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by CookieRevised on 03-22-2008 at 03:41 PM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by Nathan on 03-22-2008 at 03:55 PM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by joemailey on 03-23-2008 at 09:36 PM
RE: RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by matt on 03-25-2008 at 09:13 PM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by RockOnn;) on 03-25-2008 at 09:13 PM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by joemailey on 03-25-2008 at 09:26 PM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by MicroWay on 03-26-2008 at 01:22 AM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by aNILEator on 03-26-2008 at 01:44 AM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by ipab on 03-26-2008 at 03:40 AM
RE: RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by matt on 03-26-2008 at 04:22 AM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by NeSsiKa on 05-19-2008 at 07:19 PM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by Rik on 05-19-2008 at 07:45 PM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by vaccination on 05-19-2008 at 08:24 PM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by Oxy on 05-19-2008 at 08:24 PM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by Nathan on 05-19-2008 at 10:18 PM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by markee on 05-21-2008 at 02:21 AM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by ShawnZ on 05-21-2008 at 02:22 AM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by markee on 05-21-2008 at 02:57 AM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by ShawnZ on 05-21-2008 at 03:09 AM
RE: RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by ipab on 05-21-2008 at 06:04 AM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by mattisdada on 05-21-2008 at 07:03 AM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by Th3rmal on 05-21-2008 at 08:43 AM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by mattisdada on 05-21-2008 at 09:10 AM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by CookieRevised on 05-21-2008 at 09:34 AM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by Th3rmal on 05-21-2008 at 09:56 AM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by ShawnZ on 05-21-2008 at 10:54 AM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by Kenji on 05-21-2008 at 11:27 AM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by Aardvark on 05-21-2008 at 03:33 PM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by mattisdada on 05-22-2008 at 07:40 AM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by user27089 on 05-22-2008 at 11:06 AM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by FrozenDaggers on 05-24-2008 at 02:28 PM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by Nathan on 05-24-2008 at 02:44 PM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by ShawnZ on 05-24-2008 at 02:53 PM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by Nathan on 05-24-2008 at 03:30 PM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by Rik on 05-24-2008 at 03:49 PM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by TheBlasphemer on 05-25-2008 at 09:52 PM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by mattisdada on 05-26-2008 at 06:38 AM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by androo123 on 05-28-2008 at 08:24 PM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by markee on 06-03-2008 at 08:29 AM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by Th3rmal on 06-03-2008 at 08:34 AM
RE: What Kind of Laptop is best? - by Voldemort on 06-03-2008 at 02:55 PM


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