laptop review (Lenovo T61p)

My new laptop is nice and I like it, compared to the old one, it has twice the RAM, 4 times the CPU speed (fast enough to watch CNN videos in firefox!), 4 times the hard disk space and the hard disk itself is faster too. One of my favorite features is the finger print reader, when I brush my finger across it, it logs me in without having to enter my username or password! The resolution is very sharp and small, but if I change the resolution everything looks blury :( It has lots of connectors, USB on both sides, a modem, a network card, a normal video connector, cool pcmcia slot card cover like a VCR cover - smart! Plus it has an SD card reader, which reads the new card I just got for my blackberry!

My biggest complain is the power. The docking station didn't come with it's own power cable. The battery sticks out and it's not even the extra big battery, it's the normal one, not only that but it wiggles, it doesn't sit tight in the laptop. I disabled hibernate because it takes too long to store everything to disk dispite having 1GB of turbo cache for the hard drive, but it hibernates anyway causing me to have to login with my username & password - thanks encryption anywhere! Standby is the ultimate feature I liked on my old laptop, I would hit the power key and it would go into standby using 1% of the battery per day. This laptop requires me to hold the power button down for 6 seconds to go into standby...Yes, I think a hard power off is 8 seconds! I did this yesterday and after I got it home I noticed the bag was really hot, the battery had completely drained itself probably spinning the hard drive, but WHY?!?! It was supposed to be in standby! Anyway, after coming out of standby the wireless connection is always broken. No, not disconnected, broken. My old laptop would have to reconnect, but it would work. This one comes out of standby and tells me that there is limited to no connection until I click "repair connection" which disables and re-enables the wireless network card EVERY time! - so annoying!

I'm sure some of these problems will work themselves out after I've had it for a while, but I think there are probably a bunch of other people with the same complaints.