Those of you who follow my blog will know that I'm no "macs rule, PC's are a joke" kinda photographer... One of the biggest reasons I bought a macbook was just because it LOOKED nice. And I've often said that Thinkpads are pretty decent...
Built-in tablet.
17" widescreen display with a built-in calibration system and 72% of the full Adobe RGB color space.
Up to 8 gigs of RAM, 1 gig of graphics RAM.
Intel Core 2 Quad.
Two, count 'em TWO 200 gig hard drives...
Built-in 7 type memory card reader.
USB 2.0, firewire, AND eSATA.
Blu-Ray.
Holy cow. Apple is going to have to ROCK the next Macbook Pro, (or this thinkpad is going to have some SERIOUS flaws) ...because I really, REALLY like this new thinkpad...
=Matt=
[edit] Okay, on the shop.lenovo.com website I priced out the kind of Thinkpad that would actually make it WORTH getting. (Features that the MBP does not offer) ...$4500+!!! Ouch, and a decked-out 17" MBP goes for $3500, and if I go easy on a very decent 15" MBP I can keep it around $3K.
No dice on a "Thinktab" any time soon!
IN OTHER NEWS, my black macbook has developed a buzzing sound. I suspect that it is coming from the hard drive, and I suspect that the sound is a loose spindle or something; the sound can be heard when rocking the computer like a see-saw, but quiets down to almost nothing when it is sitting still. Sounds like a wobbly spindle to me! Needless to say I backed up ALL my data the moment I heard this sound, and I guess I either need to send in this HD, or just get a new one, or something... (Fujitsu, purchased in Feb, identical to the stock Fujitsu HD other than the capacity and RPM's... I don't even remember if this thing has a warranty... It seems I'm looking at about $65 for a new 160 gig 5400 SATA drive, no matter what brand... Not bad, but I think I spend $70-80 on this presumably dying or compromised Fujitsu. Even if I can get it warrantied, I'll need something to work with in the meantime! Anybody have any quick-and-dirty methods of swapping hard drives and having the new drive be fully bootable? (Identical to the previous drive...)
=Matt=
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