I love my thinkpad T400

My thinkpad t400 is great. It has a very solid feel, stays super cool and has a amazing keyboard(inspite of the flex).

Coming from using HP business machines for the last 3-4 years i am just so surprised that the thinkpad keyboard is so different in a nice way. i would have thought the major manufacturers had caught up by now and there would be negligible difference in keyboards but go figure.

 

Great! Congratulations on your first Thinkpad! I loved my first ever Thinkpad, too, which was in '99. I've looked at others over the years, after having worked with Thinkpads for years. It only made me feel even stronger about staying with the brand and getting one after another.

You will find that you'll never go back to anything else after enjoying the best warranty in the industry, excellent customer service, including waivers for what normally would not be policy in special circumstances. Going beyond the call of duty (for me anyway) is huge in this day and age when it comes to customer "service" having gone to the shizzaz, although we're still doing way better than the Europeans.

 

Still got my IBM X20, and its still running like a champ after many many years now. Awesome machines.

 

I was deciding on the T400 vs the T400s. The only thing I don't like about the T400s is that the battery is in the front.

Has the problems with the T400 been fixed (keyboard flexing etc)? Also, what specs did you get?

I'm still wondering whether I should've gotten the T400s. The T400 looks slightly bulky.

 

I love my T400 too, only it weren't for the slightly imperfect plastic fit areas around the notebook.

 

I've had my T400 for a year now and I still love it. Between my T42 and my T400, the 400 definitely takes the cake. Even though the screens are still rated lower than most in the industry, they are FAR better than what came on my T42.

 

I have had mine for ~4 months now and I couldn't be happier (well within the bounds of available technology of course ). It runs cool and quiet no matter what i throw at it, gets the job done efficiently and fast all while looking sleek, rugged and getting ~9 hours of battery life. Easy to tote around, great on the go, and in seconds I can turn it into a multi screened workstation.

 

I love mine as well! My first laptop and first ThinkPad

 

I really like mine. It runs cool and quiet. The construction is sturdy. My 9-cell runs rather long. It's nice with Win7; I'm just waiting for support for the switchable graphics.

 

Congrats!

My T400 has been a superb laptop, at a great price. I don't think I could get better for what I have paid, and the four months I have spent using it have been great for both work and play, running Windows 7 x64 Ultimate (RTM).

I could wish for a bit better display contrast ratio, but that's a common gripe among laptops in general. Keyboard rocks, battery life is reasonable (I have the 6-cell), it's the perfect size and weight, and has every feature I could possibly want.

 

the t400 is more powerful and has better battery life and you have more option. the t400s looks better though, and got that new awesome keyboard. however, the HDD for the t400s is 1.8" so it will be harder to replace and slower. unless you opt for SSD, but the 1.8" will still be hard to replace than more standard 2.5" one.

yes, the keyboard flex has been fix.

i dont have a t400, but if i did;
System components


14.1" WXGA+ TFT w/ LED BL

ATI Mobility Radeon 3470 with 256MB

4 GB PC3-8500 DDR3 (2 DIMM)

Integrated fingerprint reader

with Camera

320GB Hard Disk Drive, 5400rpm

DVD Recordable, Ultrabay Slim

Integrated Bluetooth PAN

Intel WiFi Link 5300

WWAN card

9 cell Li-Ion Battery

ah you get over it. wait till windows 7 perhaps? lenovo leaks some roadmap a whileback, personaly, i will wait for a bit more if you can.

 

I'm waiting for Win 7 to purchase ours.

ThinkPad T400 - 1 Yr Depot Warranty

Intel Core 2 Duo processor P8700 (2.53GHz 1066MHz 3MBL2)1
Windows 7 Home Premium
14.1 WXGA TFT High Nit, w/ LED Backlight, Camera
ATI Mobility Radeon 3470 with 256MB
2 GB PC3-8500 DDR3 SDRAM 1067MHz SODIMM Memory (2 DIMM)8
UltraNav (TrackPoint and TouchPad) with Fingerprint Reader
128 GB Solid State Drive, Serial ATA4
DVD Recordable 8x Max Dual Layer, Ultrabay Slim (Serial ATA)5
Integrated Bluetooth PAN
Intel WiFi Link 5300 (AGN) with My WiFi Technology10
Integrated Mobile Broadband upgradable
6 cell Li-Ion Battery60

 

When are the Mobile Core i5/i7 CPU's coming out???

 

I've had my T400 for a year and one month and it's been rock solid. It stays cool and quiet(it has to do with the SSD's in my machine). The powersupply never gets hot and Windows 7 rocks on this machine.

 

It will likely be in the Thinkpad refresh due for January of 2010.

 

glad you love it!. Thinkpads rock and last VERY long. I still have a working fine as dandy a22m which is like 8years old now or somthing along that lines

 

Thanks. Going by the leaked refresh schedule, the W700's refresh, the W710, will be end Q1/early Q2 2010, is that about right?

 

I chose the P8400 processor. For programming and typesetting, will this be enough?

 

Does he also like the ridiculously thick screen bezel?

 

He probably likes it about as much as you like putting down ThinkPads.

I for one, think that bezel provides an additional degree of durability.

 

Should be fine. Im using a p8600 and do fine coding and compiling.

 

Yes. That processor is plenty fast. The only reason why I opted for the P8700 was that Lenovo mistakenly offered it for the same price as the P8600.

 

P8400 is a fine processor. It may be the little brother of the Gen2 Penryn Core2 family, but it's got plenty of processing speed for what you're doing, and has the big advantage of consuming 10 watts less power (TDP) than the T-series 1st-gen Penryn, so it's cooler and offers better battery life.

I recently got someone a P8400 laptop to replace one running an HP AMD Turion X2 RM-70 (2.0GHz)-based laptop. That laptop constantly whined from its fans being spun up most of the time to keep the CPU cool. The P8400 runs rings around it, and does so while being quiet and cool. (note: Nothing against AMD, but their laptop CPUs are definitely lagging behind Intel).

 

I had the tx2500 which had the newest amd turion ultra x2 and at 2.1ghz it was a dog compared to my older penryn 2.1ghz. Not to mention it ran hot, which I blame HP more then AMD to be honest.

 

I had a TX2510 too, the Turion Ultra is suppose to match up with the "ULV" processors but it's extremely inefficient and get's very hot.

 

Reality is not what you make believe it is... Turion Ultras use 32-35 watts of power and are aimed at standard voltage core2duo chips NOT the ULV models.