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I've been looking into getting a sort-of desktop replacement for video editing, and I really, really want to go IBM. Mainly because I've never had a bad experience with them. Every ThinkPad I've used has been wonderful.

I need at least these specs for under $1300:

1.6GHz (no Celeron, no Pentium M, etc)
1GB RAM
256MB video card. (The Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 seems to have this according to Intel.com)

The R60 does this for about $1130. Any pros, cons, other suggestions?

(Psst. I'm getting a dedicated FireWire or USB2, depending on pricing issues, for editing. So 5400RPM system disk is a-ok.)

i'd spend a few hundred more and get a T60. it'll have much better graphics. if you get the T60p, you can have amazing 256MB ATI discrete graphics. also make sure you check out the educational discount.

"A few hundred more" == $700.

How do you figure the educational discount. I didn't see anything about it on the site. :(

Just send an email asking for such and such a system. That's what I did and I got $1000 off the CDN price on an X60.

R60: http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?new … inkPad+R60

T60: http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2767

Hess

www.lenovo.com/us/en/ has a link to "education" in the bottom center of the page.

Wow, there's very little available under that Education link. Disappointing! :(

i think dp did a walk-through somewhere on how to get quotes/prices through the educational link.

if he can't help you, i can. i just gotta run right now. i'm 4 minutes behind schedule.

walk-though:

http://www.lenovo.com/us/en/

click "Education" under "Ready to shop"

under "PCs for home" there's a drop down called "Students"

select "Students & Alumni" hit "go"

under "Products" on the top navigation select "Thinkpad Notebooks"

Here you should see a page with the different thinkpad series notebooks.