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I'm Scott Steiner editor at cnet.com and these are the three reasons you would want to get Lenovo ThinkPad T for 20 this big thousand dollar range business laptop is pretty bulky but you may want to get it for these features one the TrackPoint yes I said TrackPoint why not if you're going to buy one of these laptops you might as well live with and desire this read rubberized nub that's been on ThinkPads forever it's actually pretty accurate if you're in close quarters but it has none of the multi-gesture capabilities that you're used to on a large trackpad and in accessing it gets a little tricky with the letters but if you are TrackPoint fetishist there you go two ports this laptop comes stacked with the type of legacy ports you don't normally get another laptops we're talking eSATA we're talking firewire and we're talking Express card we don't have USB 3.0 or HDMI on here so if you want something more modern you're going to be up the creek three battery life with a nine cell battery this thing lasted over seven hours on our test that's tremendous and it lasted longer than a 15-inch MacBook Pro it's a beast as far as usability and durability but it is thick now the two reasons not to get it one you like a sexy-looking laptop this thing is fugly looking I mean no offense this is the sort of thing you would find from the IT department it's not designed to look attractive it's designed to be a business laptop it's also be comfortable like an orthotic shoe now you've seen this design for years so let's not pretend that it's something new and interesting but under the hood it does have the specs to hold up and to you like big trackpads let's face it this is not a very big trackpad it's really comfortable and very exact in its responsiveness but it's smaller than others and it's cramped by not just those two buttons on the bottom but these two huge buttons on the top that work for the track point your being wedged in by buttons everywhere on the other hand if you're looking for a business laptop and you love thang pads well this is that mainstream down the middle line type of laptop for you I'm Scott Stein and this is the Lenovo ThinkPad T for 20 boring perhaps but effective