T510 - Is this a good deal?

[ll357355]

Is this a good deal for the T510?
I wasn't planning on getting it, but at almost 50% i ended up throwing in the towel

T510, Discrete Graphics, HD+, i7-620M, 4gb, 500gb 7200, extended battery

1 4313CT CONFIGURED SYSTEM
06/17/10 $1,009.03
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TIA

[GrandMasterKhan]

It's an excellent deal but why do you need 3 notebooks? An all three are not ultrapportable?

[ll357355]

GrandMaster

Thanks...

I plan on selling the R500 to offset some of the cost of the T510..
The T410 screen is too small for my eyes..so gave it to my dad.

[Varu]

Is this a good deal for the T510?

45M4819 SBB INCR I7-620M 2.66GHZ,4MBL3

As for the processor, tests of the Macbook Pro's that use the same CPUs show only a 10% speed increase for the i7-620m over the i5.

By the way I'm curious, how did you get that huge discount?

[ll357355]

As for the processor, tests of the Macbook Pro's that use the same CPUs show only a 10% speed increase for the i7-620m over the i5.

By the way I'm curious, how did you get that huge discount?

Varu -

Yeah, I'm sure the CPU wont make that much difference anyway - i'm not overly concerned, even p4 would suffice for me.

It was an advertised special on lenovo (pre-memorial day i believe) which came with the i7 cpu and the extended battery.
On top of that, I used a partner discount thru my company and another coupon code I got from thinkpads.com

[Navck]

As for the processor, tests of the Macbook Pro's that use the same CPUs show only a 10% speed increase for the i7-620m over the i5.

I can give you a scenario where two systems with completely identical hardware will yield different benchmarks after given to two different users to "customize." I could even have the original system benchmarked and it might sit right smack dab center.

Mind you, the internet believes my T410 with a i7-620m, NVS3100m, 4GB of RAM (7-32 Ultimate, I don't care for that 64 silliness when most people don't have a reason to use it either), 320GB 7.2k Hitachi should only have 4 hours of battery life yet I defy their i5-520m, 8GB of RAM, 128GB SSD systems. (Which only get 5 hours on a 9 cell, how weak.)

My T410 has been my "desktop replacement" for my desktop, which has an i7-920, nvidia 8800GTX, 3x1GB of RAM, two enterprise HDDs (Raptor, RE3 320GB) and two consumer drives (Caviar Black, 640GB x2) while its down.