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if you guys watch this channel chances are you've got a fond memory of a
thinkpad whether you were trying to get need for speed 2se to run on your
parents work laptop or you were actually doing important things for yourself the
thinkpad was always up to the task with its rugged design and nipple for a mouse
but are those just rosy eyed memories or
were these actually fantastic machines
that would still hold up today well the 25th anniversary edition is here and
it might be everything i remember
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rising out of its box the thinkpad anniversary edition is soaked in
nostalgia everything about it just feels
right the keyboard the track nub and
even the way it beeps at you when you press too many keys at once
the outer build quality feels exceptional dare i say it even up to the
old ibm standard and every surface is
sturdy while also surprisingly smooth i
o wise the modern minimalistic trend is
nowhere to be seen it's got Ethernet HDMI 3 usb 3 ports an sd reader and
Thunderbolt 3 so you won't be left stranded no matter what you need while
you're working just like an old thinkpad
on that subject let's meet the og device that we'll be
comparing it to we took a trip down to the local electronics recycler free geek
vancouver and picked up this sweet thinkpad 560x a model from before
ibm had stopped making laptops and sold that business unit and its trademarks to
lenovo at 20 years old this thing
well before we would even think about using
it it needed a really good scrub but after some love from a smooth
removing tool a new cmos battery
wow look at that duct cursor man and some old school Windows know-how
from Anthony it was ready to go so let's look at the specs of both computers the
thinkpad anniversary rocks a solid the last gen core i7 7500u dual core CPU
which is so much faster than the pentium
mmx tillamook in the 560x that there is
no meaningful way to compare the two it's got
170 times more memory with
128 times the storage and the only real
disappointment here is probably the GPU
10 series graphics cards have been out for about a year and a half now and the
gt 940 in here is better than nothing but it won't handle anything but older
games and maybe a bit of acceleration in photoshop or premiere
to its credit though the anniversary edition kept all of its components nice
and cool while remaining quiet although it can air sometimes on the
side of lower clocks for longer battery life and lower temperatures rather than
higher clocks with more heat and more power the keyboards on both feel almost
identical save for the very soft semicolon on the 560x and that's a good
thing since they both have amazing keyboards the keys have a super long
travel with this great tactile feedback
and the layout this might be a bit strange these days i might be wrong it
would be easy it's morning shut the [ __ ] up like it would be easy
to accidentally hit function s instead of actually saving your work for example
but it's nothing you couldn't get used to and pretty much every key you could
need is present i give it an a as for the track pad to its credit it
tracks well and is surprisingly smooth to the touch
but it is pretty small since most of the
vertical space here is taken up by the left right and middle clicks for the red
pointing stick between the g h and b keys
let's talk about that with how god-awful the track trackpads
were 20 years ago it is no great mystery
why people who actually had time-sensitive work to do preferred
these little nubbins but these days not everyone is going to
like a point even with the four nipple
options included in the box and it does take a little getting used to
but we would never take points off for
including it because for us the anniversary edition ended up being all
about options for certain tasks like highlighting text
or quickly switching between mousing and typing the track point was as the kids
say on point for casual one-handed operation while sitting back the
touchpad was generally preferred and for bigger movements the included touch
screen was a definite blessing
though i wish i could say the same about other
aspects of the screen what the balls lenovo
where is my dedicated brightness adjustment slider
this experience has been totally ruined for me ruined
yeah i'm just kidding the 1080p ips display with a matte finish
isn't cutting edge but it's still great for productivity and is definitely
better than the 560x's 800 by 600 hpa
display that has pixel response times in the hundreds of milliseconds it really
is too bad that its old owner didn't spring for the tn panel
so the thinkpad 25th anniversary edition also includes lots of options when it
comes to authentication with Windows hello added to its perfectly acceptable
webcam and speakers and a fingerprint reader to the right of the keyboard then
once it's unlocked assuming that you went for the option with a second
hot-swappable battery this thing will keep going almost all day
now unsurprisingly the thinkpad anniversary edition isn't the premiere
multimedia laptop on the market no high resolution display no amazing
speakers with dolby atmos certification and it sucks for games
but it is easily one of the best laptops for productivity and in many ways it
makes other devices these days feel like
decorations or toys with its excellent
keyboard pointing stick and battery life
now i don't know if it'll still be working 20 years from now
like our 560x but i also don't see why it would let
you down it's everything we like about modern notebooks with everything we
remember liking about classic ones so if you were thinking about pulling
the trigger i say go for it as long as you can afford one
or even get one since it's a limited production run
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