I ordered a T510 from Lenovo Canada, using a 35% off deal I found at RFD (Red Flag Deals, this is a Canadian bargain hunter site). Considerable savings can also be made by taking offers from Lenovo directly, such as "Employee pricing".
These threads at Bill Morrow's site were reassuring, well mostly reassuring. http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=84833 http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=85668 On the Thinkpad forums, T410 reports greatly outnumber T510 reports. It was shipped a week ago, but hasn't arrived. I got the HD+ screen, 1600x900, which struck me as adequate for 15" real estate. An immediate drawback is that there is no HDMI output. They have something that they say is better than DVI or HDMI, but so far I haven't seen any monitors with that kind of a plug. It's that sort of one-way standard which often doesn't take. Anyhoo, there's still good old VGA. Configuration: Intel Core i5-520M Processor (2.40GHz 3MBL3 1066MHz) Genuine Windows 7 Professional 64 15.6" HD+ AG LED w/WW Ant NVIDIA NVS 3100m Graphics 512MB DDR3 4 GB PC3-8500 DDR3 (2 DIMM) 250GB Hard Disk Drive, 5400rpm4 DVD Recordable, Ultrabay Enhanced 9cell, LI Battery TWSL Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 ThinkPlus 3 Year EasyServ Total for 1 Year EasyServ (I think I ordered Bluetooth too but it doesn't seem to be on the docket). Total, GST and PST included, about 1,400 Kanookistan royal loonies. I'm not destroying or selling or retiring my X32 (with XP) because I expect some issues (but ultimate joy) in going over to 64-bit Windows. The unit will take up to 2x4GB = 8 GB RAM, but the 4 GB sticks remain frightfully expensive. I considered the SSD option but eventually decided not to go for it. -- happy Jonathan Berry and Erika http://members.shaw.ca/berry5868/fun.htm _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
