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This one looks totally terrible. The choice of angle makes the screen look like a 2.3:1 cinemascopic...freakwave wrote:here is a picture of the W510: http://lenovo.tekgroupweb.com/photo_dis ... to_id=5192
You could still get 14" T60p, in fact even T61p for some time. But it came with a price of more and more heat. High end GPUs of that generation consumed lots of juice and generated much more heat, compared to the older models found on, say, the T40p, and T60p was among the hottest machines Lenovo ever released, especially in 14" format. T43p weren't much better, and on the T61p 14" version Lenovo actually mounted a reduced-RAM reduced-bandwidth FX570M GPU to somehow manage the heat.freakwave wrote:A few years ago you could get the highest possible performance in a really nice package, e.g. T40p ... then came the 15 inch with T60p, still ok from a size perspective, but already much bigger.
Things weren't so rosy even with the earlier T4x series. There is a reason why GPU failures on T40-T42 most frequently occurred with the 14" p-models - these were subject to much higher thermal stress than their non-p siblings.
So eventually Lenovo did what other manufacturers (DELL, HP) did before them - moved the workstation-grade highest-performing machines to the 15"+ sector only.
This is a particularly strange excuse for this specific case, since with respect to 12mm drives, "the industry" has always been there. Lenovo's ultra-slim 9mm drives on T series have always been the exception to the rule and caused us users quite a bit of grief (low-availability, expensive, slow, media-picky, malfunctioning drives from Panasonic/M a t s u s h i t a/LG with no viable alternatives), and all this to save some thickness and weight. The 12mm drives is probably a good idea, FWIW.freakwave wrote:Now they are using the 12mm dvd drive in the new T5x except T410s. And what is the explanation? Because the industry goes there. What a weak excuse all the time.
LOL, I like that. Personally, I think Lenovo's names recently have been all over the place, e.g. T400 and T400s are two completely different machines with almost identical names, whereas T500 and W500 are essentially the same laptop, seemingly belonging to different series. But what are you gonna do. The names are chosen from a marketing standpoint, not an engineering one.freakwave wrote:Just think they should relabel their machine. T410s -> T410, T410 -> T410F, W510 -> W510SF (F for Fat and SF for Super Fat)
