Overall the G40 is a true business machine and not really geared towards the home users multimedia concerns...At $1,450 the ThinkPad G40 was only bettered on price by the Asus A2L but offered a better return in terms of performance and specifications...The CPU test score of 7161 placed the G40 up among the heavy weights like Acer?s Aspire 1705SCi and the memory test score of 5130...
Manufacturers have been putting desktop processors inside notebooks for years, so in a sense the presence of a 2.4GHz desktop Pentium 4 inside IBM's new Thinkpad G40 is hardly ground-breaking...Back in the day, the usual motive for using desktop silicon in a mobile was speed...We don't need desktop chips for speed - so why did IBM stick one inside the G40...The G40...
Well built
Good screen
Large, comfortable keyboard
Good battery life....Not particularly fast
No docking station option....Many notebooks are billed as ?desktop replacement...units, but the G40 really does have the feel of a notebook that?s designed to do what it says on the tin...So long as you don?t need to carry the notebook around much, size can have its compensations,...
Summary from 12 user reviews Average Rating 5.8/10
I bought it specifically because it doesn't have that terrible touch pad, which I despise...The plastic ticks under your right hand...Tried new battery and power supply, it would just not boot Password hacker ThaX everything i need in a laptop wonderful,BUT I LOST MY USER GUIDE good speed, good graphics weight,no infra red portal,no software for burning movies...
IBM is an industry leader in providing high quality laptop & desktop computers...This system has performed remarkably during the time I've owned it & I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a new computer...And I'm waiting for their response...
This is a fast, powerful, corporate level computer that is as fast as a desktop...I have the 512 memory, 2.4, 40 meg HD, DVD CDRW drive...It is a great machine, and you can't beat IBM for Service or Reliability...
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