Thinkpad A20 works great to present with an LCD projector
Written: Oct 03 '00 (Updated Dec 06 '00)
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Pros: great with LCD projector, fast
Cons: none
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| CreamChief's Full Review: Lenovo ThinkPad A20 2629 (262962U) PC Notebook |
As a replacement for a high-use loaner laptop, the A20m is great - especially for use with an LCD projector. Fast, fairly light, decent screen, built in NIC, modem, and CD-ROM, it booted up quickly and loaded the right drivers the first time. Those of you who have tried to configure a laptop right after the first boot know how often laptops crash or fail to load the right drivers. This thing loaded the NIC and modem drivers correctly the first time.
The Thinkpad is much faster and quieter than a similarly configured Toshiba that I recently set up. Naturally, there are too many taskbar items to begin with, but at least they are fairly useful.
Important for me - the A20m has a taskbar icon to quickly and easily help someone attach an external display like an LCD projector. That is exactly the kind of use that this machine will get. Just attach the LCD projector, start the wizard, and it detects the projector. It cycles through various resolutions so that you can see how they will look before choosing one. You can then save the external display profile that you choose.
A nice touch is that IBM ships both W95 and W98 - very useful depending upon your environment.
IBM is still the only laptop manufacturer that has mastered the "TrackPoint" mouse replacement. Compaq and Toshiba have yet to make a mouse replacement that works as well as the IBM "eraser head thingy."
This is a great laptop for the price.
Recommended:
Yes
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