It seems that at the following location, you can see all the latest specs (no prices) on the upcoming Lenovo W520 ThinkPad.
http://www.lenovo.com/psref/pdf/tabook.pdf
It seems that some industrious mail order catalog’s have listed the prices (notable, one of my favorites, ProVantage) so that gives me something to compare. I’m not sure I’ll get one right away, because they are pretty expensive and of course want the top of the line, but we will see what happens when they are actually released.
So, Here are some interesting things I’ve gleaned so far.
Graphics
| 4284-24U i7-2720QM 4GBx1 15.6" FHD 2000M 720p 500G 7200 Intel 6300 | $2728.97 |
| 4284-4CU i7-2720QM 4GBx1 15.6" FHD 1000M 720p 500G 7200 Intel 6205 | $2529.17 |
This implies upgrading the graphics card from a 1000M to a 2000M is about $200. (both have 1920×1080 screens, 6MB Cache and can handle 1600ghz memory, though Crucial does not sell it yet. You can find more info on the graphics cards here: http://www.nvidia.com/page/quadrofx_go.html Seems that the 1000M has a gizillion processors and the 2000M has 2 gazillion, but both have the same specs. Go figure.
Mix Bag
| 4276-2PU i7-2620M 4GBx1 15.6" FHD 1000M 720p 500G 7200 (Dual Core) | $1635.74 |
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| i7-2720QM 4GBx1 15.6" FHD 1000M 720p 500G 7200 (Quad Core) | $1959.11 |
| 4276-2QU i7-2720QM 4GBx1 15.6" FHD 2000M 720p 500G 7200 Intel 6205 | $1866.74 |
| 4276-23U i7-2920XM 4GBx4 15.6" FHD 2000M 720p 500G 7200 Intel 6205 | $2809.17 |
Clearly, I don’t get the pattern in the pricing besides there is a huge range. I need to get back to real work instead of this fantasy stuff.
See you.
Learn how to use a local backup drive on your windows 7 system to replicate the data on any or all of your directories on your Synology NAS (Network Hard Drive Device) DS710+. This post will show how using DeltaCopy, you can have all the data on your NAS backed up continually to a local hard drive on your windows system. Backups are all about redundancy, and this is just another redundant copy of your data should the worst happen.
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I’ve finally moved my Lenovo W500 over to Windows 7 RC. What motivated me was my wireless networking was getting really really unstable. Sometimes it would connect, other times it would not, and it never seemed to want to work at starbucks anymore.
So, here I am, and so far, vary happy. I did try the Windows 7 beta and had some weirdness with Visual Studio 2008, but so far, everything has been perfect. I do know the Microsoft folks have advertised that it contains better multi-monitor support. I don’t know exactly what that means, but I have two monitors running off my Lenovo. One is 2560×1600 and the other is 1600×1200. One hassle I always had was moving a windows that was too big for the small monitor. Now, I find that when I drag from the bigger to smaller, if the app is to big, it automatically get’s resized! Nice Job MS!
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Some Background
I recently notice on Amazon a discussion thread of about 15 people saying how absolutely wonderful SSDs are and how the brought new life to their notebook computers. Every one of them raved about the magic this brought into their lives.
Well, after checking out the prices and performance, it seems that right now there are two classes of these drives. It seems there is a first generation drive that performs in the area of 15/40Mbs/sec and ones that perform in the 100/170Mbs/sec. To put this in perspective, when people refer to SATA/150 or SATA/300, the 150 and 300 are the Mbs/sec. With Vista resource manager, you can actually see for yourself how man Mbs/sec you are actually getting. Below is a screen shot showing that.
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