W520 some infos
Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 7:18 am
Hello, I saw that our university gives good discounts to Lenovo laptops. However there are just three models.
Namely a W520 and two different t420 (one with ssd and the other without).
My main idea is to buy the w520 in order to use this discount. However I still may buy a T520 at full price, in order to make my decision I would like to do some questions:
the w520 system is (you can't customize it):
Processor: Intel QuadCore i7 2720QM (4 cores, 2.2 GHz, 6MB, 45W, TurboBoost 3.3 GHz)
RAM memory: 8 GB DDR3 1333 MHz (2 sticks 4 GB)
Hard disk: 320 GB 7,200 RPM + 80GB mSATA
Screen: 15" 1920 x 1080 px
Graphic card: nVidia N12P-Q3 Quadro 2000M 2GB
Battery: 6 cells.
Here start my doubts. It's clearly a good machine, buy I would like to ask few things:
I will probably buy a 9 cells battery because if not I won't have enough autonomy. At school there isn't in each class a power adapter therefore it has to survive just with the battery. Given this configuration, how much do you think it will last? I saw people saying 10 hours, others just 1. Im really confused. So, if you have it, how much it lasts with "normal" usage (some C programming, surfing the internet however not much more)? Consider that I will install debian on it, therefore I will disable the discrete graphic card while at school and as far as I know neither Turbo boost works on linux. It will be essentially a quad core, at 2.2 Ghz using only the integrated GPU.
Another problem is the weight. Even in this case I read different things. This system with only the 9 cells battery, what's its weight? And the power adapter, what's his weight by itself? (170W, I read that the 135W is even heavier than this one, is that true?)
You may ask why I don't buy a t520. Well there are few reasons. First, this laptop has a discount in the price (quite big..)
Second, even if at the moment I won't use it, I would like in the future to program cuda. I'm not going to use CAD or similar, but in the future I may start learn how to program cuda for optimize neural networks/bayesian networks simulations. Said so the t520 offers a graphic card which isn't that good, but still nice.
However if you say that the autonomy with this w520 will be very limited (just using a 9cells battery without carrying the power supply) I will chose the t520.
A last question is about resolution, my brother says that 1920*1080 in a 15'' is too much and that I won't be able to read things because they will be very small, is that true?
Thank you very much, I hope to be a Thinkpad guru soon
Namely a W520 and two different t420 (one with ssd and the other without).
My main idea is to buy the w520 in order to use this discount. However I still may buy a T520 at full price, in order to make my decision I would like to do some questions:
the w520 system is (you can't customize it):
Processor: Intel QuadCore i7 2720QM (4 cores, 2.2 GHz, 6MB, 45W, TurboBoost 3.3 GHz)
RAM memory: 8 GB DDR3 1333 MHz (2 sticks 4 GB)
Hard disk: 320 GB 7,200 RPM + 80GB mSATA
Screen: 15" 1920 x 1080 px
Graphic card: nVidia N12P-Q3 Quadro 2000M 2GB
Battery: 6 cells.
Here start my doubts. It's clearly a good machine, buy I would like to ask few things:
I will probably buy a 9 cells battery because if not I won't have enough autonomy. At school there isn't in each class a power adapter therefore it has to survive just with the battery. Given this configuration, how much do you think it will last? I saw people saying 10 hours, others just 1. Im really confused. So, if you have it, how much it lasts with "normal" usage (some C programming, surfing the internet however not much more)? Consider that I will install debian on it, therefore I will disable the discrete graphic card while at school and as far as I know neither Turbo boost works on linux. It will be essentially a quad core, at 2.2 Ghz using only the integrated GPU.
Another problem is the weight. Even in this case I read different things. This system with only the 9 cells battery, what's its weight? And the power adapter, what's his weight by itself? (170W, I read that the 135W is even heavier than this one, is that true?)
You may ask why I don't buy a t520. Well there are few reasons. First, this laptop has a discount in the price (quite big..)
Second, even if at the moment I won't use it, I would like in the future to program cuda. I'm not going to use CAD or similar, but in the future I may start learn how to program cuda for optimize neural networks/bayesian networks simulations. Said so the t520 offers a graphic card which isn't that good, but still nice.
However if you say that the autonomy with this w520 will be very limited (just using a 9cells battery without carrying the power supply) I will chose the t520.
A last question is about resolution, my brother says that 1920*1080 in a 15'' is too much and that I won't be able to read things because they will be very small, is that true?
Thank you very much, I hope to be a Thinkpad guru soon