Lenovo T400/T500 screen quality - Qs to owners

If you have an Lenovo T400 or T500, will you please tell me which screen you chose, who manufactured your screen, and then comment on the quality:

1) Grain?
2) Backlight bleed/light evenness
3) Highlight and shadow detail
4) Overall brightness/image quality

I would GREATLY appreciate a discussion on this.

You can find out who manufactured the screen using this program: http://www.cpuid.com/pcwizard.php

 

Great topic! It would be interesting to find out how the T400/T500 screens compare to the screens of the older Thinkpads in quality.

 

I have no desire to download some utility I won't use again, but here's what I can tell you regarding my T400 WXGA+ LED:
(1) No grain, very smooth.
(2) Backlight seems very even, no bleed I can discern.
(3) Seems very good.
(4) Brightness is fantastic - At 12 of 16 steps it's plenty bright, and at full brightness its TOO bright. Image quality is very good, albeit the display is very cool. I've not pulled out my gretag macbeth eye-one yet but will do so soon. I'm confident it will be good.

I've seen the T61 14.1" WXGA+ display and the T61 15.4" WSXGA+ (?) display and this LED screen blows both of them clean out of the water.

 

I was hoping I would see someone post this. I've been second-guessing myself for the past two days on my impulse buy. The only thing I stand to gain is a better screen.... which is worth any amount to me. Thanks!!

 

Lew - Thank you for your input! Would be curious as to your impressions after calibration. I would be calibrating mine too if I got it.

 

and what about the T500! dont forget us just because we dont have leds!

 

Someone is complaining about color shifting on two notebooks with supposedly the same screen so.. really interested in calibrated screens at this point.