Reviewing Lenovo T60P (Windows Vista) business laptop, CNET gives it 7.1 out of 10 rating (very good) and writes, “While the venerable Lenovo T60P, a workhorse business laptop that’s a common sight in airports and hotel lounges around the world, is currently available in a more contemporary (and consumer-friendly) wide-screen format, the traditional non-wide-screen version is among the first Lenovo systems to embrace Windows Vista. At $2,250, it’s a solidly built laptop (with basic configurations that start at around $1,200) that blends performance and portability. It may not be terribly exciting, but if you need to upgrade to Vista and still keep that button-down look, this is your default choice.

Our $2,250 ThinkPad T60P review unit costs almost double the system’s base price. For the extra money you get a 2.3GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T7600 CPU, 2GB of RAM, and Windows Vista Business. For the $1,200 starting price, you’ll have to trade down to a 1.67GHz T5500 CPU, only 512MB of RAM, and Windows XP Pro–leaving you with a system that’s cheaper but has a much shorter useful life.

With such a high-end set of specs, the Lenovo T60P made short work of CNET Labs’ Multitasking test, beating two other recent Vista laptops, the Lenovo ThinkPad X60 Tablet, with a 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo L2500, and the Dell Inspiron E1505, with a 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T7200. But compared to a nearly identical T60P system we tested with Windows XP, it fell slightly behind in the Photoshop CS2 and iTunes encoding tests, suggesting that Windows Vista requires more computing power to run than the older XP operating system. ”

The good: Slick, professional design; bundled ThinkVantage security applications.

The bad: Display is not wide screen; upgraded specs can double the price.

The bottom line: The Lenovo ThinkPad T60P, the go-to laptop for button-down business users, makes a largely effortless transition to Windows Vista.

Reviewed Lenovo ThinkPad T60P (Windows Vista Business Edition) quick specs:

Windows Vista Business Edition; 2.33GHz Intel Core Duo T7600; 2,048MB DDR2 SDRAM 667MHz; 256MB ATI Mobility Radeon V5250; 100GB Hitachi 5,400rpm

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This entry was posted on February 14, 2007 and is filed under ThinkPad T-series.