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Lenovo ThinkPad T500 in Laptops

Verdict

A real prizefighter of a laptop: powerful, well-built and reasonably mobile too.

Review Date: 28 Nov 2008

Price when reviewed: £989 (£1,137 inc VAT)

Overall Rating
5 stars out of 6

PCPRO Recommended

Details
Part Code NJ252UK
Review Date 28 Nov 2008
Price ex VAT £989
Price inc VAT £1,137
Overall rating 5 stars out of 6
Warranty
Warranty final 3 year(s) return to base
Physical specifications
Dimensions 358 x 255 x 34mm (WDH)
Weight 2.600kg
Processor and memory
Processor Intel Core 2 Duo P8600
RAM capacity 2.00GB
Memory type DDR3
Screen and video
Screen size 15.4in
Resolution screen horizontal 1,680
Resolution screen vertical 1,050
Resolution 1680 x 1050
Graphics chipset Intel GMA X4500MHD
VGA (D-SUB) outputs 1
HDMI outputs 0
S-Video outputs 0
DVI-I outputs 0
DVI-D outputs 0
DisplayPort outputs 1
Drives
Capacity 160GB
Optical disc technology DVD writer
Replacement battery price inc VAT £0
Networking
Wired adapter speed 1,000Mbits/sec
802.11a support yes
802.11b support yes
802.11g support yes
802.11 draft-n support yes
Integrated 3G adapter yes
Other Features
ExpressCard34 slots 0
ExpressCard54 slots 1
PC Card slots 1
USB ports (downstream) 3
FireWire ports 1
PS/2 mouse port no
9-pin serial ports 0
Parallel ports 0
Optical S/PDIF audio output ports 0
Electrical S/PDIF audio ports 0
Pointing device type Touchpad, trackpoint
Speaker location Above keyboard
Integrated microphone? yes
Integrated webcam? yes
TPM yes
Fingerprint reader yes
Operating system and software
OS family Windows Vista
Battery and performance tests
Battery life, light use 340
Battery life, heavy use 82
Overall application benchmark score 1.19
Office application benchmark score 1.27
2D graphics application benchmark score 1.28
Encoding application benchmark score 1.07
Multitasking application benchmark score 1.16
3D performance (crysis) low settings Fail
3D performance setting N/A
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