My T500 has Vista Business 64-bit. I plan to do a clean install of Windows 7 Professional 64-bit once I get my upgrade disk. Is it ok to delete and reclaim the Lenovo service partition (S:) when I do this? I think the Lenovo web site says it contains startup information for the computer, but if I'm ...

The T400 has a better keyboard While I haven't tried the new T series keyboards yet, the Dell E series keyboard is quite good. It's a little clicky/noisy but the feel of the keys was great. Still liked my R51's keyboard better though. One MAJOR drawback of the E series that I noticed was that the t...

I am the IT guy at my work, and while I personally love Thinkpads, for various reasons (75% price, 25% politics) we buy Dell PCs at work. The higher-end D-series Latitudes such as the D830 have held up pretty well for us, but I think Dell is phasing them out in favor of the new E-series. Some Dell f...

Posting this from my R51. When it came time to replace this laptop last year, I bought one of Dell's new E series Latitudes. I liked it (mainly for its Thinkpad-like style) but the body started cracking around the screen... not very durable. As it turns out, the Dell and my wife's older Toshiba were...