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ah that's better

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if you guys watch this channel chances are you've got a fond memory of a

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thinkpad whether you were trying to get need for speed 2se to run on your

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parents work laptop or you were actually doing important things for yourself the

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thinkpad was always up to the task with its rugged design and nipple for a mouse

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but are those just rosy eyed memories or

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were these actually fantastic machines

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that would still hold up today well the 25th anniversary edition is here and

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it might be everything i remember

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rising out of its box the thinkpad anniversary edition is soaked in

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nostalgia everything about it just feels

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right the keyboard the track nub and

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even the way it beeps at you when you press too many keys at once

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the outer build quality feels exceptional dare i say it even up to the

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old ibm standard and every surface is

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sturdy while also surprisingly smooth i

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o wise the modern minimalistic trend is

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nowhere to be seen it's got Ethernet HDMI 3 usb 3 ports an sd reader and

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Thunderbolt 3 so you won't be left stranded no matter what you need while

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you're working just like an old thinkpad

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on that subject let's meet the og device that we'll be

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comparing it to we took a trip down to the local electronics recycler free geek

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vancouver and picked up this sweet thinkpad 560x a model from before

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ibm had stopped making laptops and sold that business unit and its trademarks to

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lenovo at 20 years old this thing

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well before we would even think about using

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it it needed a really good scrub but after some love from a smooth

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removing tool a new cmos battery

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wow look at that duct cursor man and some old school Windows know-how

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from Anthony it was ready to go so let's look at the specs of both computers the

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thinkpad anniversary rocks a solid the last gen core i7 7500u dual core CPU

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which is so much faster than the pentium

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mmx tillamook in the 560x that there is

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no meaningful way to compare the two it's got

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170 times more memory with

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128 times the storage and the only real

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disappointment here is probably the GPU

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10 series graphics cards have been out for about a year and a half now and the

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gt 940 in here is better than nothing but it won't handle anything but older

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games and maybe a bit of acceleration in photoshop or premiere

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to its credit though the anniversary edition kept all of its components nice

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and cool while remaining quiet although it can air sometimes on the

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side of lower clocks for longer battery life and lower temperatures rather than

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higher clocks with more heat and more power the keyboards on both feel almost

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identical save for the very soft semicolon on the 560x and that's a good

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thing since they both have amazing keyboards the keys have a super long

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travel with this great tactile feedback

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and the layout this might be a bit strange these days i might be wrong it

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would be easy it's morning shut the [ __ ] up like it would be easy

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to accidentally hit function s instead of actually saving your work for example

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but it's nothing you couldn't get used to and pretty much every key you could

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need is present i give it an a as for the track pad to its credit it

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tracks well and is surprisingly smooth to the touch

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but it is pretty small since most of the

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vertical space here is taken up by the left right and middle clicks for the red

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pointing stick between the g h and b keys

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let's talk about that with how god-awful the track trackpads

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were 20 years ago it is no great mystery

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why people who actually had time-sensitive work to do preferred

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these little nubbins but these days not everyone is going to

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like a point even with the four nipple

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options included in the box and it does take a little getting used to

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but we would never take points off for

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including it because for us the anniversary edition ended up being all

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about options for certain tasks like highlighting text

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or quickly switching between mousing and typing the track point was as the kids

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say on point for casual one-handed operation while sitting back the

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touchpad was generally preferred and for bigger movements the included touch

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screen was a definite blessing

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though i wish i could say the same about other

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aspects of the screen what the balls lenovo

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where is my dedicated brightness adjustment slider

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this experience has been totally ruined for me ruined

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yeah i'm just kidding the 1080p ips display with a matte finish

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isn't cutting edge but it's still great for productivity and is definitely

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better than the 560x's 800 by 600 hpa

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display that has pixel response times in the hundreds of milliseconds it really

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is too bad that its old owner didn't spring for the tn panel

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so the thinkpad 25th anniversary edition also includes lots of options when it

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comes to authentication with Windows hello added to its perfectly acceptable

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webcam and speakers and a fingerprint reader to the right of the keyboard then

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once it's unlocked assuming that you went for the option with a second

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hot-swappable battery this thing will keep going almost all day

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now unsurprisingly the thinkpad anniversary edition isn't the premiere

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multimedia laptop on the market no high resolution display no amazing

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speakers with dolby atmos certification and it sucks for games

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but it is easily one of the best laptops for productivity and in many ways it

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makes other devices these days feel like

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decorations or toys with its excellent

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keyboard pointing stick and battery life

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now i don't know if it'll still be working 20 years from now

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like our 560x but i also don't see why it would let

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you down it's everything we like about modern notebooks with everything we

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remember liking about classic ones so if you were thinking about pulling

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the trigger i say go for it as long as you can afford one

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or even get one since it's a limited production run

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