Rhinoceros. The series Think Pad 16:10 Z provides a display and is optimized for professional use. The laptop should be a great portable thanks to its high quality components and sturdy homes. How does the real you in our tests.

Homes

The Thinkpad T61m is like other black Thinkpad series notebooks. Only the red track point, the color of the metal hinges and the blue enter key, break the black uniform. The shape unvicamente identify him. From a stylistic point of view can not compete with the design of other notebooks, but the potential buyer of a T61m is definitely attracted to other characteristics.

The surface of the case is made entirely of plastic and this is not a feeling of high quality. Anyway have a good rigità and pressure resistance. But there are still to be done a couple of widely criticized to be made about the rigidity of the case:

First, the area above the keyboard toward the center and the area 's Ultrabay slot, the case flexes under pressure.
Moreover, the Ultrabay slot protrudes casual garment to the space above the DVD player. Remains even if you replace the drive with an additional battery.

The hinges are typical IBM. Geometric, angular and Metellus. They work exactly as they appear. The screen can be positioned accurately and give the impression of durability. The display will remain closed through the system ramshorn. Unfortunately, if you closed a little wobbly.

Another interesting features of the ThinkPad notebook and the display (which was built following the principle Clamshell) if closed matches exactly prevent all basic units so that the dirt gets into the cracks.

The Z61m laptop has interfaces well-ordered. Only the S-Video port is located, for us, a little too far from the front.

Part Borders: No ports

Left Side: Fan, VGA-Out, Modem, LAN, Audio, Firewire, PCCard / ExpressCard

Rear: USB 2.0, Battery, Kensington Lock, Battery, Power

Right Side: S-Video, DVD drive, 2x USB 2.0, Kensington Lock

Input Devices

The Thinkpad Z61m confirms the good reputation obtained from the IBM laptop in the past. The keyboard is even better than that offered by some desktop.

Writing is very comfortable with excellent durability and a high lift (return). Even when you type hard experience is pleasant and the sound is without faults.

The keyboard has a clear and reasonable and the ayout the keys are of good size.

The keyboard has a clear layout and the buttons have a more than decent.

Not only the keyboard is excellent but the track point. The only small criticism is that the touch pad could be slightly larger.

Touch Pad

Keyboard

Display

Color Diagram

The screen is a matte T61m 16:10 WXGA TFT 1280x800 pixels. Apart from the monitor we reviewed is wide variety of solutions available (1024x768 - 14 "1280x768 - 14.1", 1440x900, 1680x1050, 1920x1200 - to 15.4 ").

In particular, the resolution of 1920x1200 seems a little too optimistic for visual acuity of users. With a resolution of 147 dpi the contents of the display is very small. (For more information about dpi and resolution you can see our guide)

The maximum brightness of the display reaches a good 161.4 cd / m². 'S lighting is slightly below average with 75.2%.

The diagram of colors has irregular curves of colors and a clear deviation of the blue curve. The results, as always, in the representation of warm colors.

130.9
cd / m² 148.3
cd / m² 121.4
cd / m²
130.3
cd / m² 151.7
cd / m² 134.2
cd / m²
149.8
cd / m² 161.4
cd / m² 131.4
cd / m²

Informations
Maximum:
161.4 cd / m²
Average:
139.9 cd / m²
Black:
0.2 cd / m²
Contrast:
807:1

Brightness

With a minimum value of the black only 0.2 cd / m², the maximum contrast of the screen is better 807:1.

Also outdoor use without any major problems with its display surface is not reflective enough and its brightness of 160 cd / m².

The 'angle of vision has a' good operational area both vertically and horizontally. Vertically can be seen that the contrast decreases at severe angles. However, the colors remain largely unchanged.

Performance

As for the latest laptop out on the market including the Lenovo ThinkPad Z61m is equipped with a Core 2 Duo T7200 2.0 GHz. However, you can choose between various processors ( Celeron M, Core Duo, Core Solo ) to this notebook.

Also for the graphics card is the same speech. The laptop in our possession was equipped with a graphics card Intel GMA 950 (minimum solution for this laptop). This graphics card is enough for office applications and Internet and also for Windows Vista. If your applications require 3D performance, there remains to choose the most powerful solutions. At this time (the time when this review was written), the choices are: ATI X1300, X1400 and an ATI FireGL V5200, which is the version optimized for CAD and is the most powerful offered with this notebook.

Also, you can choose between a 40 GB hard drive up to 120GB. Ours was equipped with a disk of 80Gb Fujitsu (average performance).

More information about the video card can be found in our comparison of graphics cards . Detailed information about the Core 2 Duo CPU to find here .

Benchmark Comparison 3DMark

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3D Mark05
537 points

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HD Tune:
Fujitsu MHV2080BH Benchmark
Transfer Rate Minimum: 16.9 MB / sec
Transfer Rate Maximum: 34.4 MB / sec
Transfer Rate Average: 27.3 MB / sec
Access Time: 18.3 ms
Burst Rate: 73.4 MB / sec
CPU Usage: 2.0%

Emissions

Noisiness

The laptop is very quiet in idle mode. Even using office applications the noise is acceptable. Under load some distinctly hear the fan that goes up to 40dB.

Temperatures

The upper part of the Thinkpad Z61m becomes very hot. We can observe a clear increase in temeperatura the bottom when the computer is under load. We measured a maximum of about 50 ° C in the middle. This is not a problem if you work on a desk.

Temperatures on the top

Ball of hand max.: 32.0 Celsius

Top max.: 33.0 Celsius

Average: 30.6 Celsius

Hotspot:

Temperatures on the bottom

Bottom max.: 50 celsius

Average: 34.7 Celsius

Hotspot:

Room Temperature: 22.5 Celsius

Speakers

The two boxes are located above the keyboard on the right and left. Offer an acceptable sound for background music. The maximum volume is ok even if there are low excited.

Battery longevity

The Lenovo Thinkpad Z61m has a battery Standard 5200mAh, which provides enough energy to use the computer for about an hour under load. No load and with reduced brightness in excess of 4 hours. Adding an additional battery of 2700 mAh Ultrabay duration increases by about 50%.

Battery

Idle (without WLAN, min brightness) 4h 00min
Under load (max brightness) 1hr 10min

Current consumption Idle 15.7 / 20.8 / 21.8 Watt
Load 47.1 / 48.2 Watt

Key: min: , Med: , Max:

Conclusions

Unfortunately, all surfaces are plastic, although eventually the overall strength we met.

The laptop gets a good score thanks, among other things, robust metal hinges, the Clamshell or screen and an integrated system for the disk protection that prevents data loss.

The i nput devices are first quality. The keypad as a touch pad / track are really user-friendly and suitable for long hours of typing.

The screen is 1280x800 WXGA buono.Difficile wanting more for brightness, contrast and viewing angle. Perhaps some improvements could include lighting. For users who want more space there is also a 1920x1200 version.

'S hardware equipment is reasonable. If you want more graphics performance, you should definitely change the graphics card that comes standard with one of those disposizione.Es.: ATI FireGL V5200

The noise of the notebook is all the time acceptable. Regarding surface temperatures, we Measured at maximum of up to 50 ° C at ITS bottom side. The speakers are good enough for non-Demanding background music.

The noise level is acceptable and the maximum temperature reached 50 ° C at the bottom.

Battery life is good between 1 and 4 hours.

IBM / Lenovo Thinkpad Z61m