Lenovo ThinkPad E520--Need advice

Yes, I considered the T series and the L series, but the Edge appears to be the only one that has an HDMI port, which is rather important to me.

When you say "the edge is not a very good system at all," what do you mean? Are you saying it's a piece of junk just waiting to crash when I use it, or are you saying that it's a decent machine that simply doesn't quite have the sterling reputation of the L, T, and W series?
 
Davis Goertzen said:
What do you think of the Dell Latitude laptops? More specifically, the E5520 and E6520?
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Dells business series are very nice, Dell buys those laptops from a premium manufacture for those models. They also come from Dell in a Windows and Ubuntu version so you have options.
 
Thanks guys, looks like I'm going with the ThinkPad Edge after all. I do realize that it maybe isn't quite as tank-proof as the T and W series, but it seems to be decent, and it's only going to used in office situations anyway (as opposed to out in the wild, getting knocked around and abused).
 
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Davis Goertzen said:
Hello all,

I'm shopping for a new laptop, and the ThinkPad E520 is looking pretty good. It'll be used for internet browsing and word processing, and some powerpoint; also some light movie watching and pictures. So, the applications aren't likely to be too intensive, but there could easily be a dozen items on the taskbar at a time. (BTW, if it makes any difference, I'm shopping from Canada).

Anyway I just had some questions:

1. Are the Intel HD 3000 graphics strong enough to handle powerpoint presentations, as well as some youtube and movie watching, smoothly?

2. Is the i3-2310m (the baseline processor) good enough for what I want, or will it struggle/get old in a hurry? For $50 more, I can get an i5-2410m; for $105 more, an i5-2520m; for $155, an i5-2540m; for $295 more, an i7-2620m. (All prices are CAD, taken from the Lenovo site.) I did a little bit of googling, and it looks like either the i3-2310m or the i5-2410m would work, but I want your guys' input.

3. The E520 comes with 4Gb of RAM baseline, but I'd like to expand this to 6Gb or 8Gb. On the Lenovo site, this costs me $80 or $160 respectively. I thought of buying laptop RAM from Newegg and installing it, but I don't know whether Lenovo uses 200-pin RAM or 204-pin RAM. Any input on this one?

Thanks in advance guys.

Davis
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