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Can someone that's more computer hardware literate than me have a quick look at this:

http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/c...2010/L412-L512

Laptop - Lenovo Thinkpad L512
2GB/160GB/DVDRW/15"/XP/1YR
Lenovo L512 Core i5-520M 2.4GHz 2GB RAM, 160GB HDD
15.6" HD AntiGlare, Intel HD Graphics, Camera, BT
BGN, Win XP Pro (Windows7 Recovery Media)

Does this laptop look decent-ish? For work purposes (so no games..)

What sort of work? E-mail, web browsing, spreadsheets? Should be fine. Grapic design? Not even close.

No graphics design..

Yeah mainly emails, MS Office.. and lots of wireless connections...

Are the specs fairly low for nowaday standards?

Nope. Good specs for what you want to do with it.

That's good~ just wanna double check..

Make sure it's loaded with Win 7, though. No point going for XP when the OS will be buried in 3-4 years.

What does the "Win XP Pro (Windows7 Recovery Media)" mean?

I looked around and didn't see that anywhere. Looks like they're only coming with Windows 7, as they should.

Windows XP will never die.

Vista certainly wouldn't kill it, but Windows 7 certainly will. It's all the good things of XP wrapped up with the good things of Vista.

That "Win XP Pro (Windows7 Recovery Media)" was in the specs given to us.. I heard my boss question the OS that's gonna be on the laptop (seeing that they're unfamiliar with Win7).. so I'm not sure if the IT people altered anything..

but it would be stupid of them to put XP on it when we're running Vista in the office.. but you never know with these people.. I dont trust them.. xD

The wording is odd. It appears that you will have Windows XP Professional preloaded, with the option of transitioning to Windows 7 Ultimate via a recovery partition on the hard drive. This is odd, since it is usually the other way around.

2GB RAM may cause bottlenecking, even though it is theoretically possible to run CAD and other more intensive programs with only 1GB RAM. The hard drive is also very small, especially when hard drives are being made in 1TB and higher variants nowadays. If you choose, you may buy a bigger hard drive, and it might be cheaper in the long run.

Graphically, you will be limited exclusively to basic work applications. Watching full screen videos may cause some FPS lag, and rendering and graphics design, as well as gaming, are obviously out of the question.

The starting price point on these laptops are not impressive at all, however.

Thanks! I just want to know where these laptop sits in the current market and technology..

Looks like it's just good enough for the basics...