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My girlfriends mother has just got a new (old) laptop. It’s a business laptop that’s a few years old, a Lenovo Thinkpad T43p to be precise. I’ve read lots about Thinkpads but never actually used one for any length of time before but there’s a few things I quickly noticed.

1. This model has a 14.1″ SXGA+ screen running at 1400×1050 and the quality is fantastic, incredibly sharp and clear. Even though it’s only 14.1″ you feel as though you have plenty of space. Many 14″ laptops run at 1280×800 or less (like my HP 6930p) which I find rather limiting.
2. Build quality is superb, it feels as though it will last a lifetime.
3. Great keyboard, easy to type on right from first use (although the lack of a Win key and the Fn key placement is very hard to adjust to).
4. This model had a Intel Pentium M 760 / 2 GHz processor, 1GB of RAM and a standard 80GB 5400rpm disk but felt very fast and responsive in everyday use. It felt much faster than I expected it to.

Along with the genuinely useful Lenovo software available I’ll definitely consider buying a Lenovo myself in future. I know that Linux runs fine on them and with them being a staple of many large businesses they get a lot of people installing Linux so the web has plenty of sources of help with Linux on Lenovo laptops.