PROS:
-Build quality is second to none.
-Integrates MS Office Applications easily into hardware.
-Super long battery life and high performance options.
-Great tactile keyboard and you can buy a keyboard in various languages and type fonts.
-All the parts are easily user removable, user replaceable, and user serviceable!
-Great customer support at Lenovo!
-Unique features like waterproof keyboard, airbag, roll cage, fingerprint security, Thinkpad manager, etc...
-SXGA and UXGA resolution screens!
-Quiet dust proof fan.
CONS:
No SD or Memory Card slots but you can easily buy a PC adapter card.
Runs hot on surfaces like beds and cushions and fan is not super quiet when laptop is hot.
Video Memory options are scant on the T60 models. With 256MB being rare and 128MB being standard. This is not a gaming laptop.
Screen brightness is not as crisp and luminous as newer models. Not a con for me because it is easy on my eyes when typing long papers.
No video/web cam on this model.
Only 3 USB ports
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Excellent product. Originally recommended to me by one of my fellow IT friends, I decided to check Amazon for the IBM ThinkPad T60. The price was right, I needed a laptop for email, office applications, and general sysadmin usage. The best part these laptops are built like a TANK. Good luck breaking these on accident!Data Sales, Co. provided a great description of the laptop. All of the cosmetic wear was correctly described, leaving no surprises. The laptop was cleaned perfectly, packed perfectly, and even came with a copy of Windows XP (Although I just installed Arch Linux.) I ordered a separate battery for the laptop so I had that extra 4 hours of battery life. 8 hours of battery life for ~$150 is the deal of the century.
My only issue is when you turn on, wake up, sleep, or take power in or out, the motherboard speaker makes a LOUD beep. This can be avoided by muting the motherboard speaker by pressing a button on the keyboard.
The palm rests feel great, the screen looks great (although don't plan on taking this outside in broad daylight unless you're in shade.) The hinge connecting the screen to the body of the laptop is very strong. You can hold the laptop by the screen and nothing will swing.
This laptop can also be used for light gaming! I was shocked! I installed Counter-Strike 1.6 and Counter-Strike: Source on this laptop to find that both ran at upwards of 60fps and 20fps respectively when I tweaked with settings.
All in all, this is a great buy. Do not hesitate, as Lenovo is starting to phase out the glory of the ThinkPad series by using cheaper parts (chiclet keyboards? REALLY?)
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