Thinkpad T70 ?

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andrey · #1 Post by **andrey** » Thu May 24, 2007 5:45 pm

I'd love to see Lenovo making one of these...

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/notebook-sup ... 263359.php

-- Andrey

sugo · #2 Post by **sugo** » Thu May 24, 2007 6:01 pm

It looks sexy but kind of fragile

Turbo Audi · #3 Post by **Turbo Audi** » Thu May 24, 2007 6:19 pm

Looks like Intel may come out with their own line of computers. I have been hearing the OS rumor for awhile now.

#4 Post by **gator** » Thu May 24, 2007 6:46 pm

Kinda beats the macbook outright, but somehow I get the feeling it is more of a 'toy' than of a lean, mean business machine. Are these real life pics or mock ups?

andrey · #5 Post by **andrey** » Thu May 24, 2007 6:49 pm

gator wrote:Kinda beats the macbook outright, but somehow I get the feeling it is more of a 'toy' than of a lean, mean business machine. Are these real life pics or mock ups?

These are the prototypes of the next Intel platform. Who knows, maybe one of these days we'll see the real thing!

-- Andrey

pianowizard · #6 Post by **pianowizard** » Thu May 24, 2007 6:54 pm

This thing is even thinner than the Sony Vaio X505 and the Sharp MM20, which are both up to 0.8 inches thick! Slightly heavier than both, but the extra weight is worth it because you get a 12.1" WXGA display (versus 10.4" XGA).

But the Toshiba Portege R100 (which I owned for almost a year) is also 0.7 inches thick. We need to find out how they're rounding off their measurements to see which one is thinner.

qviri · #7 Post by **qviri** » Thu May 24, 2007 8:12 pm

The laptop's sexy... the keyboard not so much...

zahir · #8 Post by **zahir** » Fri May 25, 2007 3:54 am

very sexy....

dcdomain · #9 Post by **dcdomain** » Fri May 25, 2007 7:59 am

Unusable

I entered the ultra thin laptop foray with the Portege, it was a piece of crap. The [censored] thing was so slow it was practically useless for anything but browsing the web and email. Sure technology has improved over the 5 or so years since I bought that laptop, but really... I'd gladly bump up to something like Thinkpad's X or T series to have something useful.

Then again, if they can stuff the power and usability of a T series in that form factor, I'm all for it!!!

andrey · #10 Post by **andrey** » Fri May 25, 2007 10:22 am

dcdomain, I bet your "Protege" didn't have 14 hours battery life!

pianowizard · #11 Post by **pianowizard** » Fri May 25, 2007 10:27 am

dcdomain wrote:I entered the ultra thin laptop foray with the Portege, it was a piece of crap. The [censored] thing was so slow

It sounds like you used one that had a 1.8" HDD, like the 2.38-lb Portege R100 that I had. If this Intel laptop uses a regular 2.5" HDD, then it won't suffer the same problem.

#12 Post by **tomh009** » Sat May 26, 2007 5:08 am

Can you realistically fit a 2.5" hard disk (9.5 mm thick in itself) and a keyboard with reasonable key travel in 0.7 inches (18 mm). I have my doubts!

I love portability, but I don't want just a cool toy, I want something that is durable and performs well enough to be my primary system.

snessiram · #13 Post by **snessiram** » Sat May 26, 2007 6:54 am

Can't you break a laptop as thin as that easily?

pianowizard · #14 Post by **pianowizard** » Sat May 26, 2007 7:41 am

tomh009 wrote:Can you realistically fit a 2.5" hard disk (9.5 mm thick in itself) and a keyboard with reasonable key travel in 0.7 inches (18 mm). I have my doubts!

Don't 2.5" HDDs have the exact same thickness as 1.8" HDDs? I am pretty sure they do!

jamiphar · #15 Post by **jamiphar** » Sat May 26, 2007 9:53 am

pianowizard wrote:Don't 2.5" HDDs have the exact same thickness as 1.8" HDDs? I am pretty sure they do!

Yeah, the 1.8" 20GB drive in my Archos is the same thickness (9.5mm) as my other drives.

Tholek · #16 Post by **Tholek** » Sat May 26, 2007 3:29 pm

Turbo Audi wrote:Looks like Intel may come out with their own line of computers. I have been hearing the OS rumor for awhile now.

They had their own computers at one time. I stupidly passed over getting an Intel desktop years ago. Would be a conversation piece now, at least. They also made graphics workstations too, I think.

#17 Post by **ryengineer** » Sat May 26, 2007 3:34 pm

The keyboard looks very very cheap.

Tholek · #18 Post by **Tholek** » Sat May 26, 2007 5:14 pm

It looks like it should be touch-sensitive.

furrycute · #19 Post by **furrycute** » Sun May 27, 2007 9:51 pm

The LCD probably uses LED backlight. And it is stated in the article it uses an SSD, along with an ultra low voltage CPU, those are probably the two main reasons for the long battery life.

Turbo Audi · #20 Post by **Turbo Audi** » Mon May 28, 2007 7:28 am

Tholek wrote:
Turbo Audi wrote:Looks like Intel may come out with their own line of computers. I have been hearing the OS rumor for awhile now.
They had their own computers at one time. I stupidly passed over getting an Intel desktop years ago. Would be a conversation piece now, at least. They also made graphics workstations too, I think.

Oh cool, I did not know that.

Troels · #21 Post by **Troels** » Mon May 28, 2007 7:25 pm

Flash but flimsy
Hello pressure marks and smashed LCD.

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