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I sold my Thinkpad Z61M that I had barely bought to buy a Thinkpad R61i it sucks that the R400 R500 are replacing the R line. Hopefully with my warrenty if anything happens I can get my hands on one of them 
it looks almost identical to the current 15.4" T61p and nothing like a Z-series.makaveli559m wrote:Looks more like the Z60 series
if you were to put a T61p and W500 side by side, their overall shapes and dimensions would be extremely close.I can't see a clear image of either the front or the right side panel. I see that there is no audio or mike port on the left side.Pocket Aces wrote:Well they moved the audio and mic jacks to the front....
from where did you know that the T500 will be released on 5th of aug?tzcomwiz wrote:Will the W500 be released on 8/5 like the T400/500?
to save from having to zoom in on a low-res PDF, here are some high-res images of the W500:barrywohl wrote:Okay. I zoomed in on the W500 spec sheet and found the audio and mike ports on the front lip.
That's what a thread in the T400/500 forum said.Bashar wrote:from where did you know that the T500 will be released on 5th of aug?tzcomwiz wrote:Will the W500 be released on 8/5 like the T400/500?
i seetzcomwiz wrote:That's what a thread in the T400/500 forum said.Bashar wrote: from where did you know that the T500 will be released on 5th of aug?
Except for the part that it's got a Lenovo logo on the top cover and is still missing Flexview (at least give us the option to put that in ourselves!). It's a gutted T60p.barrywohl wrote:I can't see a clear image of either the front or the right side panel. I see that there is no audio or mike port on the left side.Pocket Aces wrote:Well they moved the audio and mic jacks to the front....
How do you know they moved the audio and mike port to the front? I far prefer a side placement. Otherwise, the W500 looks like a BETTER T61p in almost every way.
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I'm in the same boat. I'm after the W700 myself. Even if it's not IPS, the W700 is apparently the best one out of all the new Thinkpads. I don't need the 180 degree viewing angle, but I would like to watch Bluray movies on it. I wonder how many people have gotten one of those babies.sethstorm wrote:Except for the part that it's got a Lenovo logo on the top cover and is still missing Flexview (at least give us the option to put that in ourselves!). It's a gutted T60p.
I'll hold out with my T60p and T42p until both have no parts available at all. At least those have Flexview, 4:3, and don't need a piece of the cover material that makes it look like the logo never existed.
It does appear to be a standard keyboard (the numeric keypad is a separate part#). Note the photo of the back of a W700 keyboard here, showing the white nylon mechanism thru the back, and Part# 42T3970 and FRU 42T4002.Crunch wrote:I'm in the same boat. I'm after the W700 myself. Even if it's not IPS, the W700 is apparently the best one out of all the new Thinkpads. I don't need the 180 degree viewing angle, but I would like to watch Bluray movies on it. I wonder how many people have gotten one of those babies.sethstorm wrote:Except for the part that it's got a Lenovo logo on the top cover and is still missing Flexview (at least give us the option to put that in ourselves!). It's a gutted T60p.
I'll hold out with my T60p and T42p until both have no parts available at all. At least those have Flexview, 4:3, and don't need a piece of the cover material that makes it look like the logo never existed.
I read that some people want to exchange the keyboard with one of the T6x series, so does that mean the keyboard has taken a hit as far as not being of as high a quality? I'd like to get a super duper machine if I shell out $3,500 for a W700. Is that too much to ask? lol...
the W700 has more reinforcements than any of the new R/T/W series so there have been very few complaints about the keyboard. i recently compared two NMB keyboards (T6x and the original) on the W700 and find them each to feel similar.Crunch wrote:I read that some people want to exchange the keyboard with one of the T6x series, so does that mean the keyboard has taken a hit as far as not being of as high a quality? I'd like to get a super duper machine if I shell out $3,500 for a W700. Is that too much to ask? lol...
Well, the old Tpads weren't big 17" monsters, either, so some flex is probably to be expected.IBM wrote:I bought the Lenovo ThinkPad W700ds, it's nice. I really like the pop out screen and the finger print reader, and as always, the rugged build of the entire thing. Although I must say since Lenovo took over the production, the ThinkPad has gotten slightly weaker. For example, I was using my W700ds and shifted seating position and had to move the laptop with one hand. It creaked while I was holding it. The case shifted, I never remembered the old IBM ThinkPads to do that.
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