Lenovo ThinkPad T520 Core i5-2520M 320GB 15.6in
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Lenovo ThinkPad T520 Review
Certain notebooks gain a reputation over the years, be it good or bad. The Lenovo ThinkPad-series has been one of those families that has grown for almost 20 years, while still retaining the namesake of being one of the best business notebooks money can buy.- mSATA SSD Compatible and SATA 6.0Gbps speeds
- Comfortable keyboard and excellent touchpad
- Very good battery life
- No eSATA or USB 3.0 connections (eSATA included on T520 with discrete graphics
Lenovo ThinkPad T520 Review
The T-series ThinkPad is a top-quality business notebook series. It is popular with businesses due to its durable design and dependability. The T-series tends to be a bit pricey, but do the features and quality justify the cost? Let's take a look at the T520 business powerhouse and find out!
Hideous screen Blob of discolored pixels lower Left.
The permanent blob of discolored pixels on the lower left of the screen shows as a brown blob on a white space window such as Notepad, see blob photo on the Windows blue sky background. A large lump of dysfunctional pixels. No DVD reader.
It's a reasonable machine, and decent mix of components for the money, but a missing hard drive caddy meant extra parts before it could be considered reliable.
The missing part is small and inexpensive enough that it is not a big deal, but I would have preferred not to have had to go through the trouble of finding another one to make the machine usable.- Decent performance for the price point
- including RAM and HDD
- HDD was installed without hard drive caddy
- which meant it would come lose when the laptop was moved
Lenovo ThinkPad T520 Review
Click to EnlargeWhile it's a bit thick and heavy for a 15-inch laptop, the $1,299 Lenovo ThinkPad T520 offers business users everything they need: good performance, durability, and security. Of course, you also get Lenovo's trademark fantastic keyboard and accurate pointing stick.
Very functional with some extra fluff harware.
This is a good unit, it has become my second office computer. It is used for printing documents, labels, and Power Point speech notes. I like the keyboard on the Lenovo G570 much better with the wider spaced keys. The performance is very good.
Review Lenovo Thinkpad T520 Notebook
As could be seen in the T420 , many things have remained untouched, apart from the performance increase that was to be awaited with the new processor generation. This is just as true for the case's design as for the pre-installed, convenient ThinkVantage tools.- Good application performance
- Optimus technology
- Extensive communication configuration
- Pleasant input devices
- Keyboard light
- Battery options
- Display port
- sRGB coverage and very good contrast
- Known and proven Thinkpad quality
- Vertical viewing angles
- No USB 3.0
- New
- well dosed design ideas
Fisrt I'll start with a description of my use of the computer and my history with Laptop. My main uses are : Development under eclipse (java, groovy, ....) Usual Web surfing, time wasting online.
Excellent music production laptop.
It's a great computer. I use mine to run Cubase and a bunch of VST's. I have had no performance issues so far. Handles lots of resource hungry plug-ins without so much as missing a beat. The build quality is almost astounding. It being let down only for the screen bezel and a flimsy cd/dvd tray.