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I loved this at first -i thought, 2.6Ghz i7, 4gb memory, 320gb hard drive, like 12hrs of battery life with 9-cell li-ion, beautiful ibm keyboard, 3lbs ultraportable and rugged, for less than $1000. "omg i love life."Unfortunately there are some serious shortcomings with this laptop, as follows:
unstable, weak keyboard: peeling off the keys to clean makes it impossible to reattach the keys, unlike in previous ibm thinkpads which are ultra rugged. they really cut corners on the quality. even popping off and replacing one letter keys has caused that key to be unreliable ever since; on fast typing it doesn't fire correctly. what's the point of a blazing hot i7 when, when you're typing you have to go back to correct 'coectly'? because i'm afraid to touch the keyboard now, it's gathering dust in the corners and is hard to clean.
rapidly degrading battery. maybe 6hrs instead of the advertised amount.
whenever i'm running on battery, the screen inexplicably whites out (extremely high contrast to an almost unreadable state) for 30 seconds at a time, every half hour or so.
wireless card not very good: everytime i take the computer from standby, it shuts off; it doesn't interface well with access points; it blinks out sometimes -the drivers are no good at all
the latch connecting the battery to the computer is defective; when you drag the computer forward on a surface, it disconnects and the power cuts out, making you lose all your work
the keyboard is the biggest deal for me, but all these other things made me feel like lenovo threw out all the quality and ruggedness that made ibm thinkpads great. i loved that old keyboard and now it's just not the same. tl;dr next time, i'm getting an overpriced macbook
still 3 stars for great processor, ram, and price. i'm not afraid of firing up programs and running multiple browser windows, stuff i couldn't do on my old computer. too bad the KEYBOARD doesn't wok (i mean work).
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