Description
Most notably the high-resolution 900p screen, slightly faster Core i5-2520M dual-core processor, a dedicated Nvidia graphics card, 500GB 7200RPM hard drive, and the beefy 9-cell battery. Overall this configuration is more than powerful enough for office productivity and is a good value.
The hard drive in our test sample of the T420 is a fast Hitachi TravelStar model which greatly helps performance – the hard drive/storage system is the slowest part of any modern computer. To that end, the main reason that other business notebooks such as the Dell Latitude E6420 ATG and HP EliteBook 8560p produced significantly higher PCMark scores is because those review units each came equipped with a faster solid state drive (SSD) … which is also an option on the T420.
