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ThinkPad R52 18466NA good for games?
Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 7:25 am
by Fenix
Well, it has a speedy 1.86GHz processor and a 64MB PCI Express graphics card. My purpose is to play a few games and get some schoolwork done. Mostly it'll be used for playing games like Warcraft 3. So, is the R52 good for me?
Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 9:47 am
by slagmi
Well.....it will run Warcraft and other current games OK, no doubt. But there are argueably other notebooks that are better for gaming...but they may not be as duarble, or reliable, or if repairs are ever needed it may not be so EZ to get that done...I wouldn't buy one of those other notebooks unless it was literally going to sit on a desk all the time, and yet even then I probabally wouldn't buy the other brand...
Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 5:24 pm
by Fenix
So, IBM ThinkPads are more reliable and durable than other notebooks? Cool. But I'm really scared that the quality of future TPs may go down due to Lenovo...
P.S And TPs look cool also...
Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 5:47 pm
by thePCxp
I think that that R52 is good for you.
I think that ThinkPad's are (and look) cool too!
Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 11:03 pm
by K. Eng
Not likely as far as the R and X series are concerned. Those are currently manufactured by the Taiwanese company Wistron, which is an ODM of fairly good reputation. If you go the forum here about IBM selling the PC Division, you'll see my thread on this - according to The Inquirer, Lenovo will keep using that ODM. Nothing will change as far as the manufacture of those machines.
Now the T series is made by IBM and Great Wall Technologies, so that's another situation entirely...
Fenix wrote: But I'm really scared that the quality of future TPs may go down due to Lenovo...
P.S And TPs look cool also...
Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 5:14 am
by Fenix
Well, finally ordered it. Waiting for IBM to ship it over. Can't wait to have that thing in my bedroom...
P.S My old PIII Compaq Presario laptop refuses to detect my USB thumb drive, probably due to the fact that it knows that it is going to be replaced... (j/k). So, I'm thinking of pulling the HD out from that thing and putting it in my new TP for transferring my data. What should I do? Order that Ultrabay HD thing? (Forgot the name of it).
Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 6:53 am
by Fenix
Oh yes, can I tell them to send the 'recovery CDs' together with the TP?
Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 5:33 pm
by thePCxp
You can create recovery disks with Rescue and Recovery. It comes in your R52.