<p>ok...it's the last day of the lenovo month-long sale. </p>
<p>i was wondering what you guys thought about this brand.</p>
<p>and do you think they'll have another big sale like this in the near future?</p>
<p>the thinkpads are durable laptops and if they are powerful enough for your needs they are a solid buy</p>
<p>they are not many huge huge sales on ibm laptops that I have noticed</p>
<p>I would also suggest looking at the HP business line of notebooks</p>
<p>Lenovos are truely the best laptops you can get. They are built extremely tought and rarely if ever have ANY problems. I've had mine for a year and its worked perfect, no problems ever.</p>
<p>lenovos are not the best laptops you can get - they really lack the power to take that title..they are the best consumer laptop durability wise avaliable widely throughout the us without a doubt though. Best keyboards too.</p>
<p>No they are the best.</p>
<p>Who says you need a lot of power for a laptop? If your wanting to play games, then a laptop isn't right for you. The fact that you can get a Lenovo with Core Duo for $1000 sounds damn good to me.</p>
<p>Macbook (non-pro) or thinkpad X60?</p>
<p>Depends what on your requirements.</p>
<p>Personally, I'll choose the X60.</p>
<p>Yea thanks, but closer look there is no CD/DVD drive, you have to buy the 2299.00 and its a 3 pound dock. That made my choice easy.</p>
<p>I recommend T series, they are pretty standard workhorse laptops.</p>
<p>i want to go for an ultra portable if i could.</p>
<p>If you really need to take an optical drive with you everywhere, you can get an external one that plugs in via USB.</p>
<p>Lenovo Thinkpads are the best business laptops and the best bet for college students. Its very sturdy, best keyboard, good performance. Downside is that its pricey. I dont know why people say Thinkpads have bad performance since all the benchmarks I have seen shows Thinkpads to be on par with other notebooks that are supposedly "faster". Only area that is lacking is in video card since the best gpu in a Thinkpad is a ATI X1600. Not many needs better than that though. </p>
<p>MacBook is consumer and more specifically style orienated. Gaming performance isnt great on it either. I would get the Thinkpad over the MacBook unless style is a big concern. </p>
<p>p.s. I doubt anyone needs to carry a optical drive around. If you really need a disk just burn an image and mount it on your hard drive. I have a Dell Latitude X1 (Samsung Q30 rebrand) and it has no internal optical drive...and I havent missed it so far.</p>
<p>macbook vs. thinkpad X60
thinking about the same two...but I guess I'll go with the mac book...it's cheaper, has the built in cd/dvd drive, greatsoftware(at least for me because I am looking into film/ design...)...Why did I even think about getting something else..oh yes...I wanted to run AutoCAD...</p>
<p>so wait, what happens when i but the X60 and no dock and i need to install something?</p>