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Lenovo ThinkPad T500 review

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Lenovo ThinkPad T500

Verdict

All work and no play makes the Lenovo a happy laptop indeed. A business classic

Review Date: 9 Sep 2009

Reviewed By: Sasha Muller

Price when reviewed: £817 (£940 inc VAT)

Overall Rating
5 stars out of 6

Features & Design
6 stars out of 6

Value for Money
5 stars out of 6

Performance
5 stars out of 6

PCPRO Recommended

Battery life, light use
  • ThinkPad T500
  • 7hr 53min
0
Full working day

The light-use test is the absolute longest you can expect the battery to last with careful power management.

Battery life, heavy use
  • ThinkPad T500
  • 1hr 38min
0
Full working day

The intensive-use score is the battery life during very demanding, CPU and hard disk-intensive operations with power management turned off.

Overall application benchmark score
  • ThinkPad T500
  • 1.15
0
3.2GHz Pentium D PC
+100%

PC Pro's application benchmarks test real-world performance in a range of applications. Click here

3D performance (crysis) low settings
  • ThinkPad T500
  • 5fps
0
Smoothly playable

Our 3D gaming benchmarks test gaming performance in Crysis, which remains one of the most challenging games available. Setting is 1,024 x 768 at low detail.

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User comments

N500 just as good

My N500 T6400 seems to do all this does. Solid and very quick I reckong these are better than the old IBM Thinkpads I used to sell. Certainly more reliable...

By fortysix on 23 Sep 2009

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