New specs on T410, T510, and W510

Yes. It seems like the T410s is the 'real' T series and the T410/510 is just rebadged R series.

 

That's a 10.5" display sized about 25.9cm x 6.5cm. A loose wrist band with UltraHD++ resolution?

 

I suspect 16:9 is probably the end of the aspect ratio war as long as it is the popular trend in televisions.

 

Look at the bright side: soon we can use our snowboard bags as notebook sleeves.

 

ok, look at the gpus that were in lenovos for a while. they were the 3 series... god. wat more did u expect. they werent special at all. the 4 series was a leap and the 5 series is another huge leap. ati is turning around.

I am not about to downgrade ONE thing for my laptop upgrade. my t60 better not beat out any aspect of the latest technology coming 2-3-4 years later. if my ati 1600 beats that nv out... imma just wait till a refresh or wait for the t420.

if your doing cad, shouldnt u be using the w500? its got more power. imo, thats the real cad/heavy duty gpu/cpu intense laptop.



on that topic, when do they normally do a refresh? and with refreshed, might they switch gpu's? idk how long until ati starts getting their lower end dx11 cards out and by then, their drivers should start maturing.

 

Just wait for 21:9 (2.35:1) CinemaScope style panels. They are already popping up in a few Philips LCDs ( source and product page). The Vaio P is already close to this as well (1600x768).

 

16:10 had the benefit of fitting full size keyboards on smaller sized screens. I don't know how much screens can shrink past 16:9 because then 14 inch laptops won't be able to fit a proper 7 row keyboard.
I have already moved the taskbar from the bottom to the right side of the screen on my T400 to increase vertical space, and I can have more open windows that way.

 

this is an excellent way to put it
yes, i think this is the case as well

they took a bit out of the t400/500, added a bit to the r400/500
and we have the new t410/510

the left the t410s
as a pricey bells and whistles enthusiast model

as an enthusiast, i'm disappointed in the lack of options now
although the t410s looks mighty nice
but probably from their perspective, considering their target market
it was a smart move

 

Does anyone know whether the T410s uses a 1.8" drive (like the T400s)?

 

i think it is very safe to assume that it does
which is kind of disappointing
because even if it is available to purchase
i can't buy one until intel starts making their x18m-g2 drives available
there's no other ssd worth putting in a machine

 

Looks like some updates are making it onto the Lenovo site. Not sure if it is my fault, but the intro flash takeover just loops. I wasn't able to navigate from www.lenovo.com

I selected a shop page from the browser history and saw this:

 

No doubt Nvidia's driver situation is better; however, Lenovo had a couple driver releases for XP at least. I think Vista had one update to resolve a couple bugs and fix the issue of the FireGL V5700 showing up as the garden variety Radeon 3650. Most manufacturers do that and it sucks. Nvidia gets props for doing that.

 

Yeah I just keep looping around and around too, hopefully this means that since it's kind of late in the night they're just working out the bugs for more official news tomorrow.

 

Looks like they're keeping a couple of old 15.4" models available, at least for the moment...

 

Wow, looping continues for me on Firefox, Safari, IE and Chrome. Can't navigate away from it without first selecting the Edge or X100e. Somebody screwed up with the homepage takeover (HPT) animation.

Better remove the HPT or fix it before releasing the T and W series today.

 

This means
t410 14.1 inch 16:10 or t510 15.6 inch with 16.9 resolution? that wound mean that both has a high of 19cm, right?

 

Port layout of the T410: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lenovophotolibrary/4243875387/

I like how the 3.5mm audio output is no longer on the front and that the 14" Thinkpad model also now has a digital video output.

 

No new tablet (X210t) announced so far?

 

x200 and X200t is not been replaced in this current round of update, there are rumours that it will be replaced in Q2 of this year. Not everything gets upgraded in one go, usually the product revamp occurs over several months.

 

The 12 inchers always lag behind.

So what. Who cares about the Beta drivers crap that they shipped with the first badge of T61's?

 

Thats what she said

 

Anyone know why the new spec models don't work on the website?

 

just found this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3_th9Yij60

 

it says it availible on thier site... i cant find it lol. it just shows the old t400

 

Looks damn good to me

 

T410 and T510 now available for purchase.

http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/...91A03AF24034A0011B825513BCED&menu-id=products

 

Are the 1000 tweakings that Lenovo made with MS real or just marketing BS?

Fingerprint bootup seems pretty cool.

 

not sure but the boot up seems pretty fast according to that video.

 

I remember paying 200 CND for the R400 when it was first launched but my order got cancelled later on.

Now this? That's really a ripp off for Canadians.

 

~10 seconds for BIOS init, ~32 seconds from swiping to desktop (and we know Windows shows the desktop before the system is ready/idle). It's not bad but not ground-breaking either. My Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 1 boots in 12 seconds from the boot loader to a fully usable desktop. That would make 22 seconds on the ThinkPad - at least 10 seconds faster without any voodoo.

 

Lol. nvidia invented an NVS 5100M for the W510

 

So far i really dislike these configurations and what happened to having 512 quadro graphics? Also if you config the T410 and the T410s to the highest one it will tell you the highest monitor setting will delay your order by 4 weeks! What type of disinfo is that? So far the T410 and T410s has no difference at all.

 

Wow my notebook can boot up in twenty seconds and shut down also within 5-10 seconds big deal, gimmick what a gimmick.

 

I have to agree. For 14" not much changes, while for 15".. well,
I think it's nice that they make a high-res FHD available in the T510 (unlike in the T500), but it's no good if the GPU is to weak to power that (assuming the 3100M is).

At the same time, the W510 is just total overkill with only 45nm/W quad i7 as options (135W power brick. yeah. more power *grunt*). On top of that both T510 and W510 get bigger and heavier again.

Personally, I'm somehow missing a relatively lean and mean machine like the W500 (or the T61p) was before, packing very good, but not excessive CPU and GPU power with acceptable battery life and size/weight.

 

What exactly does this card compare to? I've never heard of it before but it sounds like a rebadge of something from the way nvidia has done things in the past sometimes.

 

When you upgrade the processor on the T410s it gives you a 5-1 card reader instead! No price increase either. Plus you don't get any Nvidia graphics with it!

 

Ok, the T410S is available for purchase now - where the heck is NotebookReview's review????!!!

 

Agreed. I can't pull the trigger on anything until I see a review

 

Is this some mistake? W510 with NVS5100? Even HP offers FX880m or 1800m as mentioned here.

http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/01/06/hp.elitebook.probook.get.major.speedups/

 

I went to bed last night hoping to wake up and find the new T410s with switchable graphics ready to order. I guess I'm going to wait a bit longer..

 

Lenovo always fubar's their launch in regards to the quality of the website. The information is normally wrong and the web configuration normally doesn't work.

 

i wouldn't order until we see some reviews
how does the new roll cage hold up?
exactly what is this mystery nvidia card?
is the screen still utter garbage?

 

I'm not worried about the roll cage or nVidia's newest rebadge job (if that is what it is). As long as the screen on the T410s is as bright as the one on the T400s I'll be happy.

 

Lovely...on Tech Specs it says the T410, T510, and T410s all have switchable graphics, but on the Compare page it says only the T410s does. If the T410 and T510 really don't have switchable, I'm going to be really disappointed.

 

And then on the customization pages, you'll notice the T410s doesn't offer discrete!
FUBAR!!

 

I’m very confused about the Elite T410/T510 with discrete graphics. If it’s got the Arrandale chipset (with integrated graphics on-die) AND an NVIDIA NVS 3100m, which wouldn’t there be a facility for using integrated graphics on battery power and the NVS 3100m when plugged in?

In the tech specs for both, I see:

"Graphics
Integrated Intel® 5
nVIDIA® switchable NVS3100M 512MB"

But in the feature comparison of the T-Series line, neither has "switchable" as features unless the Elites are treated separately.

 

Exactly what I wanna know: no switchable graphics for T410 and T510, but what does that mean?

If I configure a T510 with an i7-620M and a NVS3100M, will I still be able to turn off the Nvidia GPU via the BIOS (let's say after it died due to a manufacturing screw-up ) and use Intel's integrated GPU? If not, I'm not buying it. Why should I pay for cool next-gen features when I can't use them?

Or does it only mean we won't get driver support (no on-the-fly change)? That wouldn't bother me...

 

The best way is to call Lenovo and ask whether T410&T510 have swithable graphics.

 

I'm getting pretty disappointed with NotebookReview. Here we are over halfway through the release date for the T410S and still no review posted. What gives? Are they losing their edge?

 

I just got off the phone with them. According to Desmond at Lenovo, the T410 and T510 will have switchable graphics if ordered with the nVidia discrete video chip. Also, the T410s with switchable graphics won't be available until mid-February.