[JackalsNose]

I've owned a Thinkpad T60 since August of 2006 and it is still currently under a 3 year limited warranty.

Overview
Thinkpad T60 pimps a 100 gig hard drive and 1 gig of Ram. The video is provided by ATI mobility X1400. Fingerprint scanner is included along with a DVD Burner

Appearance
The T60 is black and blocky, the screen gets dusty frequently and those of us with 9 cell batteries enjoy a battery that protrudes from the back of the laptop. Putting this laptop in a bag with heavy books can lead to minor cracks, such as the one I had on my palm rest before I had it replaced.

Drives
The 100 gigs is plenty for a portable workstation, but may become restrictive if you plan on pimping out this machine with media or applications. I had a bad experience within the first 6 months of having this where the hard drive died. Luckily, the warranty had me back up and running within a week and I only lost about a week of data that I hadn't backed up.

The DVD Burner works as advertised and can easily be ejected from the machine with a slide next to it that ejects a tab to pull the drive out with. Nothing I can really say about this.

Interfaces (Fingerprint Reader, Keyboard, Trackpoint)
The fingerprint scanner is really nifty if you're not one to remember that really secure password you set up, but it is sometimes annoying when you don't scan your finger properly and you have to rescan. You should get the hang of this as time goes on and you will only have to do it once.

Keyboard has basic laptop functions, and a thinkvantage button for utilizing the rather disgusting bundled software. I'm not a big fan of the software it includes because it seems rather unnecessary for the most part (except for nice things like the drive protection software)

There are several ways to use the mouse and I have no qualms against any of them. The bottom left button broke at first but I just switched to the upper buttons. Of course, the warranty fixed this eventually.

Conclusions
The T60 is a good computer for work, and it's 2 GHz Dual Core Processor will probably never disappoint the office worker. New Games don't run so hot on this machine, but that is expected for a laptop that is getting to be a couple of years old. I purchased this as a bundle from my school that got me lots of software with it so I can't really say much about price because it's not the same anymore. I can say that it was a good deal at around $1600 for the laptop, software, & warranty when I bought it.

Update - Now it won't boot up...it starts, but doesn't even get to BIOS before shutting down, on battery or AC power.

[movvadinesh]

Thank s for the review JackalsNose.
I think its great gadget because it has a 100 gig hd and 1gb ram which i don't have and even they're really great specs.
But I think , from what u said, since it is black and blocky, i like it and i think when we use our system, it usually gets dust on it and we need not bother about that.
It is a good news that it has got a fingerprint reader.
Hey jackal u r saying that new games won't run on this thing but my computer doesn't run old games also since i have got really bad specs.
And from the review you have posted I think you mentioned the right price.

[djeuro]

what are the prices right now running on those things?

[Larrabee]

Originally Posted by djeuro

what are the prices right now running on those things?

The price is around $1500. (See: Lenovo ThinkPad T60 2008 - Core Duo T2400 1.83 GHz - 14.1 Review and Information)

I was never a big fan of Thinkpad. Because the price/performance isn't that well. And I will not use all features of it (if I must have one).
But I can understand some people are realy happy to see this Thinkpad T60.

[Xavier]

Originally Posted by djeuro

what are the prices right now running on those things?

Hey guys, you can actually get a T61 (newer model) for just over $700 after discounts on Lenovo's web site: T-Series from $734., but plan on spending about $150 to $200extra on upgrades compared to its base model.

[Larrabee]

Ow, thanks Xavier, then I was totaly wrong about the prices. Sorry for that!

[djeuro]

Originally Posted by Xavier

Hey guys, you can actually get a T61 (newer model) for just over $700 after discounts on Lenovo's web site: T-Series from $734., but plan on spending about $150 to $200extra on upgrades compared to its base model.

would yuo reccomend this to people though xavier, or would you just reccomend to get another type and maybe even cheaper.

[JackalsNose]

Originally Posted by djeuro

would yuo reccomend this to people though xavier, or would you just reccomend to get another type and maybe even cheaper.

I personally think you should stay away from T60s and probably IBMs in general. Mine has broken 3 times in 2 years, and that's only doable with being a residential student having the ITS department right here to deal with lenovo.

[djeuro]

i dont agree with you. IBM laptops and computers have been great. they are one of the manufacturers ever. Like the thinkpads, theyre amazing.

[ChrisTheFeral]

Originally Posted by djeuro

i dont agree with you. IBM laptops and computers have been great. they are one of the manufacturers ever. Like the thinkpads, theyre amazing.

Most of the teachers at my school have IBM laptops