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    max battery run time for Thinkpad T530

    Hello everyone, Thanks for your input. I just called Lenovo. They installed all kinds of updates for me, and now the system says I have 47 hrs of battery life remaining. Go figure ! So, in case any of you run into this kind of problem, updating certain system configurations seems to help. The...
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    max battery run time for Thinkpad T530

    This machine was supposed to have a max run time of 9.10 hrs. But de facto I have to recharge every 3 hrs. How can that be?? I'm not doing much with the laptop other than run Word, Outlook and doing some Internet. I replaced the HDD with an SDD; but that could hardly account for the 9.10 hr...
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    Lenovo Z710, durable?

    Hi there, I'm tempted to buy the following machine: Lenovo Z710 (59421369) Notebook Intel Core i7 4710MQ (2.50GHz) 8GB Memory 1TB HDD NVIDIA GeForce GT 745M at the price of $1000, which is just about the limit of my budget. My main priority is to have a durable laptop for business, for my...
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    How important is Ghz/i5/i7 etc if you have an SSD ?

    Hi, I'll be getting a laptop that I"ll equip with an SSD (and and external HDD). Question: Since the SSDs are supposed to work wonders, how secondary do other components of the machine become? In other words, does it really matter at that point whether it's an i5 or i7, or how much Ghz, etc...
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    ASUS K55 or refurbished Thinkpad W / T ?

    Thanks for your reply. I think I might go for the Asus... It's not for gaming. But I do run a translation business with it. So mostly Word (but a lot of it, with heavy documents, lots of track-changes), at least 8 internet screens open at the same time. I would use it with an external keyboard...
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    ASUS K55 or refurbished Thinkpad W / T ?

    My budget is below $1000. My priorities are: long-term durability and speed. I'll be using an external keyboard and monitor, plus installing an SSD drive...so many factors are secondary (except when I'm travelling with the machine...which is not often). I kind of like the ASUS K55, but I could...