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ah that's better if you guys watch this channel chances are you've got a fond memory of a ThinkPad whether you were trying to get need for speed to se to run on your parents work laptop or you were actually doing important things for yourself the ThinkPad was always up to the task with its rugged design and nipple for mouse but are those just rosy eyed memories or were these actually fantastic machines that would still hold up today well the 25th anniversary edition is here and it might be everything I remember and more speaking of remembering remember to check out Sennheiser's PXE 550 wireless headphones they feature up to 30 hours of battery life noise guard hybrid active noise cancellation and more you can learn more at the link below rising out of its box the ThinkPad anniversary edition is soaked in nostalgia everything about it just feels right the keyboard the track nub and even the way it beeps at you when you press too many keys at once the outer build quality feels exceptional dare I say even up to the old IBM standard and every surface is sturdy while also surprisingly smooth Iowa is the modern minimalistic trend is nowhere to be seen it's got Ethernet HDMI 3 USB 3 ports an SD reader and Thunderbolt 3 so you won't be left stranded no matter what you need while you're working just like an old thing pad on that subject let's meet the og device that we'll be comparing it to we took a trip down to the local electronics recycler free geek Vancouver and picked up this sweet ThinkPad 560 X a model from before IBM had stopped making laptops and sold that business unit and its trademarks to Lenovo at 20 years old this thing well before we would even think about using it it needed a really good scrub but after some love from a mover moving tool a new CMOS battery Wow look at that duck cursor man and some old-school Windows know-how from Anthony it was ready to go so let's look at the specs of both computers the ThinkPad anniversary rocks a solid the last gen core i7 7500 u dual-core CPU which is so much faster than the pentium MMX Tillamook in the 560 X that there is no meaningful way to compare the two it's got 170 times more memory with 128 times the storage and the only real disappointment here is probably the GPU 10 series graphics cards have been out for about a year and a half now and the GT 940 in here is better than nothing but it won't handle anything but older game and maybe a bit of acceleration in Photoshop or premiere to its credit though the anniversary edition kept all of its components nice and cool while remaining quiet although it can air sometimes on the side of lower clocks for longer battery life and lower temperatures rather than higher clocks with more heat and more power the keyboards on both feel almost identical save for the very soft semicolon on the 560 X and that's a good thing since they both have amazing keyboards the keys have a super long travel with this great tactile feedback and the layout that might be a bit strange these days might be wrong it's morning jieb oh shut the fuck up like it would be easy to accidentally hit function s instead of actually saving your work for example but it's nothing you couldn't get used to and pretty much every G you could need is present I give it an A as for the trackpad to its credit it tracks well and is surprisingly smooth to the touch but it is pretty small since most of the vertical space here is taken out by the left right and middle clicks for the red pointing stick between the G H and B keys let's talk about that with how god-awful the track pads were 20 years ago it is no great mystery by people who actually had time sensitive work to do prefered these little nubbins but these days not everyone is going to like a track point even with the four nipple options included in the box and it does take a little getting used to but we would never take points off for including it because for us the anniversary edition ended up being all about options for certain tasks like highlighting text or quickly switching between mousing and typing the track point was as the kids say on point for casual one-handed operation while sitting back the touchpad was generally preferred and for bigger movements the included touchscreen was a definite blessing though I wish I could say the same about other aspects of the screen the balls Lenovo where is my dedicated brightness adjustment slider this experience has been totally ruined for me ruined yeah I'm just kidding the 1080p IPS display with a matte finish isn't cutting edge but it's still great for productivity and is definitely better than the 560 X's 800 by 600 HP a display that has pixel response times in the hundreds of milliseconds it really is too bad that it's old owner didn't spring for the TN panel for so the ThinkPad 25th anniversary edition also includes lots of options when it comes to authentication with Windows hello added to it's perfectly acceptable webcam and speakers and a fingerprint reader to the right of the keyboard then once it's unlocked assuming that you went for the option with a second hot swappable battery this thing will keep going almost all day now unsurprisingly the ThinkPad anniversary edition isn't the premier multimedia laptop on the market no high resolution display no amazing speakers with Dolby Atmos certification and it sucks for games but it is easily one of the best laptops for productivity and in many ways it makes other devices these days feel like decorations or toys with its excellent keyboard pointing stick and battery life now I don't know if it'll still be working 20 years from now like our 5 60 X but I also don't see why it would let you down it's everything we like about modern notebooks with everything we remember liking about classic ones so if you were thinking about pulling the trigger I say go for it as long as you can afford one or even get one since it's a limited production run this episode was brought to you by 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