T400 failure rates

I just want to know about T400 failure rates. How long did your T400 stand before a failure occurs?

 

Side note, my friend ordered one (Switchable GFX) from the outlet...
It stopped working the first day. IT shut down an dwhat not. I have no problems with mine so far.

 

Mine appears to be an early model with a date of August of 2008. While there's no way to get any sort of warranty repair history that I know of, in the month that I've been using it I've never had any sort of problem with it.

 

Don't mean to anyone off, but lenovo's are built like tanks so there will less failures compared to any notebook manufactures along the lines of dell and hp, and actual software/driver issues run through every notebook, which lenovo driver support is pretty good. Without a doubt lenovos are the workhorse of notebooks.

I had a T500 with no failures up to this point about a year and a half of use

 

don't really think so.

http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/11/17/reliability.study.has.apple.4th.place/

 

That survey is flawed for a number of reasons. Firstly, it's a voluntary response survey, which is already inaccurate at best. Second, it's limited to SquareTrade customers, which weights towards consumer-grade laptops and netbooks. Last, it makes no distinction between the business laptops and consumer laptops that each manufacturer produces.

So, for example, even if Thinkpads are extremely reliable, the Lenovo category could be pulled down by the Ideapads.

But on a more related note, my T500 has no problems after 1 year.

 

that's what I wanted to say. Thinkpads are extremely reliable, but Lenovo doesn't produce only Thinkpads.

IMO, T/X series are still better than SL series. That's why this poll is about T400 failure rates, not Lenovo laptops failure rates

 

I guess you don't know that ALL T400's suffer from design failure in their planar boards by overheating?

Ask any authorized service center that is the most common cause of failure in the T400, the planar.

There are lots of fanboys with Lenovo, but you can't hide from the truth and i am far away for being a fanboy.

 

I've rarely - if ever - seen any threads about the T400 overheating unless a broken fan was the issue. A quick Google search finds nearly nothing on T400/T500 overheating issues.

 

T400 is based on the T61 in its chassis design, they use pretty much the same components other than the Planar board, Wireless card, Ultrabay slim drive, which are upgraded.

T61 are extremely robust (other than the nvidia GPU used on some models), but the integrated gpu model can take a beating without ever missing a beat.