Lenovo ThinkPad T510 Review February 26, 2010
As a high-end processor, besides the entertainment features, it may be perform better for business uses. Lenovo ThinkPad T510 is typical of the business notebooks; it comes with a built-in Core i7 core platform, as well as a wide screen. Although Lenovo ThinkPad T510 doesn’t come with Num Pad, it is still famous for its keyboard texture as well as dual-track input.
ThinkPad T510 laptop is a laptop focusing on business users. And the ThinkPad fans will be glad with that the Lenovo T510 is a classic ThinkPad, it is black! It is sleek and industrial, it is at the dimension of 373×246×32-35.8mm and just weighs 5.9 pounds. Lenovo ThinkPad T510 comes with a 15.6 inches HD LED Screens with the resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels for vibrant HD playback, strong video editing. What’s more, the 15.6-inch screen is a mercury-free LED backlit display, which will use less power than the previous laptops.
Lenovo ThinkPad T510 is powered by Intel Core i5-520M at 2.4GHz, i5-540M at 2,53GHz, and the i7-620M at 2.66GHz, all with dual cores. Lenovo T510 comes with Intel’s integrated graphics and the NVIDIA NVS3100M dedicated GPU, which is probably a switchable graphics solution.
Lenovo ThinkPad T510 features a RAM which can be up to 8GB, a hard drive which can be up to 500GB an 80GB and a 128GB solid state drive.
Lenovo T510 comes with a comfortable keyboard, the key space of ThinkPad T510 is reasonable and it is gapless which will avoid the dust; the feedback of the keyboard is very good, it will make you feel like that you type on a desktop. Moreover, there are individual microphone and speaker mute buttonon the ThinkPad T510′s keyboard for you to use, besides, there is a Delete and ESC keys added to the ThinkPad T510 laptop.
Do you worry about that you can not type correctly on your keyboard of Lenovo T510? Don’t worry! There are built in LED on keys of the ThinkPad T510’s keyboard such as microphone and speaker mute buttons, power on button, and the Caps Lock key. These LED keys will allow you to see the keyboard clearly.
Lenovo ThinkPad T510 comes with a multi-touch TouchPad which allows you to zoom, rotate and scroll just with your two fingers.
There is a fingerprint reader nearby the touchpad of Lenovo ThinkPad T510, and this one is a new “smart” fingerprint reader.
ThinkPad T510′s LED’s light up, either left or right to tell you if you have a bad swipe and from which direction so that you can adjust; and what will surprise you is the power on from swipe. Either from completely off, hibernate, or in sleep mode, one swipe, and your ThinkPad T510 will power on!
Lenovo T510 features a multi-touch trackpad, a 2MP web camera, four USB ports (one is eSATA/USB combo port), an ExpressCard slot, DisplayPort and VGA outputs, a Firewire port, 5-in-1 media card reader, and an optional Smart Card reader. And it has a good array of ports on the T510.
On the front side of the Lenovo ThinkPad T510, it is Slide lock.
On the left side of the ThinkPad T510, there is VGA and DisplayPort, 2 x USB 2.0, an eSATA/USB 2.0 combo and the Wireless On/Off switch.
On the rear side of ThinkPad T510 laptop, there is Modem and a USB port, battery, DC-in, fan.
On the right side of Lenovo T510, there is Express card Slot, 5-in-1 cardreader, the Mic/Audio combo jack, Kensington Security slot, 12.7mm optical drive and RJ45.
ThinkPad T510 contains lots of communication features. You can exchange data wirelessly with small external mobile devices, for example a cell phone or PDA, over Bluetooth 2.1. A GOBI 2000 from Qualcomm is available as a broad band modem. A SIM card from Vodafone is also included right away. Fast connections via WiFi hotspots with the built in Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 AGN (agn) are even possible with n-standard support if necessary.
ThinkPad T510′s security features include a Kensington Security slot, a splash water protected keyboard and a fingerprint reader that has to be configured with the ThinkVantage tool before use. A smartcard reader is optionally available on ThinkPad T510. So you don’t worry that your data will be pried.
Lenovo ThinkPad T510 will start with the price off $13,988 dollars. With so strong performances, you will love ThinkPad T510.
Lenovo ThinkPad T510 Specs:
Processor: Intel Core i7-M620（2.66GHz）
Operating system: Windows 7 Professional 64bit
Graphics: NVIDIA NV3100M
Screen: 15.6″ LED 1,920×1,080
Memory: 2GB DDR3 1,066MHz
HDD: 320GB SATA 7,200rpm
Others: USB 2.0×3、5in1 cardreader, Mic-In、2.0MP WebCam、802.11agn、Bluetooth、9-Cell battery, Fingerprint、VGA、e-SATA Combo、Display Port、Express Card/ 34、ThinkLight
Dimension: 373×246×32-35.8mm
Weight: 5.9 pounds
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I bought a T510 in April 2010 in NY. Actually I am working in Brasília, capital of Brazil, and about a week ago the backlight of my T510 broke, leaving my TP with nothing but a black screen. I tried the IBM online service request form, only to be told after 4 days, that my request was closed, with no comment on why and what to do. So I tried to call the toll free number, where they gave me another toll free number, where I was told to call the first toll free number again. While googling my problem, I found out that I’m not the only one with backlight problems on thinkpad notebooks. Unfortunately that seems to be a common problem. So I opened another request on the IBM online service, asking them to contact me. it’s eight days by now, that I am without my computer, unable do do my work, and still no reply from IBM/Lenovo. This is very disappointing, considering that I paid a higher price thinking i would get a good quality product with a good worldwide service (as I was told by the vendor). It seems that only the higher price is left over in this story. Pascal Daniel Angst(Quote) (Reply)