T420s specs out

[flensr]

Website says available "late March", which is soon, right?

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/products/p...20s/index.html

It has just about everything on my wishlist. Anti-glare screen, I7 cpu, usb 3.0, 3x3 wireless N, SD card slot, etc etc. It looks like the main drawback is going to be battery life. They don't mention standard battery life, saying only that if you pull out the optical drive and stuff in a bay battery, you get "up to 10 hrs". Also, it seems like it probably still uses the very small form factor hard drives instead of standard laptop drives, which will sharply reduce upgradeability and potentially lead to early end of useful life if replacement parts become hard to get. No BD, but lots of laptop manufacturers seem to be skipping that and it's probably Sony's fault since BD is still very rare in small laptops.

Best part - 3.9 lbs in a durable thinkpad chassis.

Still, I already like it better than the MBP. I'm now waiting for Toshiba's R700 replacement, before I make a purchase decision. My thinkpad T41p still runs like a champ but it won't do virtualization very well (neither MS virtual PC nor vmware will run, virtualbox and dosbox work but very slowly) and it's just overall slower than I'd like it to be.

 

[Away]

Would have been nice to see an IPS panel show up on this model as well, like the X220 is getting as an option. Otherwise it looks pretty nice and should be a good step up from your T41p.

 

[gsaldivar]

They'll be available on March 29 according to Lenovo.

I'll be ordering a W520

 

[corkyg]

I'll be ordering a W520

I'm jealous! If my T510 were not so new, I'd get one too. I might anyway!

 

[gsaldivar]

I'm jealous! If my T510 were not so new, I'd get one too. I might anyway!

I just hope that I'm able to tweak World of Warcraft to play at a decent framerate on that workstation-class GPU.

 

[Brainonska511]

Certainly looks like a nice machine. I'll probably be going with a standard T420 myself to replace my almost 5-year-old Asus W3J.

 

[flensr]

I like the specs better on the regular 420 and especially like the use of a regular hard drive on the 420, but the t420s is about the same size as my t41p but almost a pound lighter, and I've gotten so used to the t41p that I really don't want to carry around anything heavier. The t41p is almost exactly 5 lbs and it's right around an inch thick too, so it's just a hard standard to meet or beat.

Toshiba better hurry up if they want to be even considered for this market space... Under 4 lbs with an i7 and optical drive is populated by maybe 3 or 4 models, total, but that's the ONLY set of specs I am seriously considering right now. It makes my purchase decision a matter of "do I buy the only laptop that fits my requirements now or not", instead of "which of these 20 nearly identical laptops will I buy?"

 

[hans007]

I just hope that I'm able to tweak World of Warcraft to play at a decent framerate on that workstation-class GPU.

my coworkers used our W510s to have random starcraft 2 battles in conference rooms. so i would figure you can on a W520.

 

[wwswimming]

yeah, that is a nice laptop.

doesn't look like they have a configurator up yet.

matte screen, opens up a full 180, i7 available ... Jeez.

 

[Dasda]

I'm jealous! If my T510 were not so new, I'd get one too. I might anyway!

That was the best product somebody ever recommended to me.

Thanks again:thumbsup:

 

[thesix]

They'll be available on March 29 according to Lenovo.

I'll be ordering a W520

So they are
http://shop.lenovo.com/us/products/p...20s/index.html

 

[beginner99]

So they are
http://shop.lenovo.com/us/products/p...20s/index.html

I I need to move. I guess they will be at least 50% more expensive here and Iwould have to wait another month.

 

[gsaldivar]

So they are
http://shop.lenovo.com/us/products/p...20s/index.html

No micro ssd option yet...