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Re: Headed to college. Laptop help?

I've been using a Lenovo W500 series for this year and it's fantastic for what you need in college. Handles CAD and games without a hitch, pretty durable, and generally just does a lot of things well. The trackpad sucks, but there's the IBM "nub" to make up for it.

http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/c...8E1488F7083D90

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Originally Posted by EricVanWyk View Post
I hate my Lenovo T500. The price was right, the specs are great, but the user experience is awful. The CD-drive pops out randomly, the control and function keys are swapped, the charger cable is always loose and makes a ear destroying noise when it is plugged/unplugged.

They really need a better team of industrial designers.
You can disable the noise somehow. I forget how I did it, some guy at my college radio station did it for me. You can also switch Fn and Control around.
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