Lenovo ThinkPad T60p Widescreen Coldwater MI

The ThinkPad T60p Widescreen is Lenovo's first wide-screen corporate
laptop with workstation graphics. Its 256MB ATI Mobility FireGL V5250 graphics
chip is optimized for OpenGL, the programming environment of choice for many
big-name game developers and other 3D-modeling professionals. The WSXGA+ screen
has the high, 1680-by-1050-pixel resolution needed to do detailed graphics
work. The screen is quite dim, however, despite being rated at 200 nits. This
drawback isn't a deal breaker, but even compared to the 150-nit-rated
standard-aspect 14-1-inch
Lenovo ThinkPad T60, the
Widescreen definitely looks a little darker.

Our $2199 test machine was
otherwise very nicely designed. Equipped with a 2-GHz Core 2 Duo 7200
processor, 2GB of RAM, and a 100GB hard drive, it was a good performer. In
WorldBench 6 Beta 2, it earned an admirable speed score of 73. The battery, an
upgrade in our notebook from the standard six-cell to a nine-cell, lasted a
lengthy 4.5 hours. The T60p Widescreen is also well equipped for wireless
communications, with draft-n (and 802.11a/b/g) Wi-Fi support as standard and
cellular broadband as an option. At only 6.2 pounds, it truly is a mobile
workstation.

The T60p Widescreen has all of the same great ThinkPad
features as the smaller T60, including a top-notch keyboard with dual pointing
devices and a modular bay for using two batteries at once. But only the
strongest eyes will want to squint at this machine's dim screen for long.