
Slim size, light weight, and keyboard illumination, ideal for the R61 on the street.
A classic ThinkPad, the R61 is full of nice features you do not usually find in a laptop, such as the Think Light, an LED lights up the keypad. The R61 is 14.1-inch screen and 5.8-pound weight make it an ideal travel companion, too. For a work-oriented notebook covered with all the trimmings, this model is hard to beat.
The first-rate keyboard includes both a touchpad and an Eraserhead nub, as well as special internet forward and backward buttons. An integrated fingerprint reader, located in the right palm rest in order to log-ins a breeze, if you do. You can hot-swap devices – the dual-layer DVD drive or an extra battery, among others – in and out of the right-side modular bay with one hand. On-screen documentation and system recovery utilities are just a keystroke away.
The 2.2-GHz Core 2 Duo T7500-equipped R61, which admirably in our speed tests by a World Bench 6 Beta 2 score of 80 years. The R61 is 3 hours, 19 minutes tested battery life is good.
The $ 2004 ThinkPad R61 is a nicely designed machine that deserves consideration as a destination portable.