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According to Lenovo, eight new ThinkPad laptop models meet military specs for semi-rugged computing. These include the ThinkPad X200, X301, X200s, X200 Tablet, T400, T500, R400, and SL300 laptops.
"ThinkPad is well known for quality, reliability and innovative security technologies for business computing," said Tom Ribble, executive director, Worldwide ThinkPad Product Marketing, Lenovo. "The truth is we've always built tough laptops that can weather extreme conditions from hiking the rainforests of the Amazon to flying in space. You don't need a PC that looks like a tank to excel in harsh environments, and unlike many of our competitors, we don't put an extra charge on toughness."
Though not billed as a 'ruggedized' laptop, Lenovo claims its military-grade models can withstand a barrage of brutal testing environments. Lenovo subjected its new ThinkPads to various harsh elements, such as low pressure operation at 15,000 feet, cycling 95 percent humidity through the environment, baking the laptops up to 140 degrees, testing at minus 4 degrees, fluctuations between extreme hot and cold, and subjecting the units to blasts of dust for an extended amount of time.
Given all that the ThinkPads withstood, we're not sure when an Accident Protection plan would come in handy, but Lenovo offers it nonetheless.
Lenovo says the ThinkPad T400 laptop with high brightness screen (680-nit) is available now through Lenovo business partners with pricing starting at $1,350.
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Keith E. Whisman
February 25, 2009 at 2:36pm
Our Phoenix Transit Police use the Toughbook for working with crimes caught on the buses security cameras. Pretty neat but slow as a snail. It takes a long long time to download just a few megs of video to the toughbook over a USB 2.0 connection.
bloodyserb
February 25, 2009 at 1:53pm
My experience with Thinkpads from the last few years is rugged laptops, but shit keyboards. And @ $130 a pop I would expect them to last more than a year.
Keith E. Whisman
February 25, 2009 at 1:32pm
I want a laptop that I can run prime 95x2 while in a pizza oven and the thing doesn't over heat.
horzo
February 25, 2009 at 12:41pm
Love Thinkpads. One of the few laptop lines I can pick up and not instantly think, "What a piece of sh*t."
cheezeus
February 25, 2009 at 1:36pm
when i think lenovo i think gosh what a pos i have a 3000n100 i sent back for repairs 5 times in two years mobo failure, hdd failure, ect. well needless to say they dont have my seal of approval.... IBM what happened.
Keith E. Whisman
February 25, 2009 at 2:34pm
IBM sold it's laptop line the Thinkpads to Chinese company Lenovo. For a while there Lenovo thinkpads were on the same quality par as IBM. Perhaps they are rebounding again on the quality front.
horzo
February 25, 2009 at 3:31pm
Humm, I've owned three Thinkpads, and have never had more than the occasional minor problem. My current was purchased well into the Lenovo era (June 2007), and it looks the same, feels the same, and has been just as reliable.
