T410: It's coming!!

I didn't really think they would build it this fast, but they did.
They said it shipped. Hopefully I will have the T410 by Monday or Tuesday as they bumped me to 2-day shipping.

I'm guessing now everyone will want me to post a review now

 

Monday is a holiday, doh .

 

Psychic, you are

Congratulations, and hope you get it soon!

 

2-day shipping? Please post some pics here. +rep.

 

I think it is insane that the T410 is shipping for customers but there have been no official reviews yet. Not NBR, not Engadget, not CNET - nothing! Lenovo must just have not sent out any review units - I hope they aren't hiding something.

 

The t410 in Stock in Germany singe à fee dass so its reasonable. UnfortunAtely Nobody Poster à Review yet

 

Awesome! Looking forward to it!

 

Please enlight us with your review when it reaches your place!

 

UPS doesn't consider Monday to be a holiday...

 

That is awesome, haha, I'm happy for you, and can't wait for you to receive your laptop!

Gotta let us know how it is!

p.s. what are you specs?

 

NBR is beholden to what the manufacturers give them for review. If Lenovo offers up no T410, there's no review.

 

hey,
I second the spec request
as well as the original date you were supposed to get it..
also waiting for a system to arrive, hope i'll be lucky as well..

 

Mine got shipped as well, I ordered it the the night before the release with an estimated ship date of 1/15. The laptop went from in-process to shipped early on 1/15. The tracking info is now up in UPS and shows it will be here in Seattle by 1/21.

I am guessing the delays are due to nvidia, I went with discrete graphics, 7200rpm drive and i7 620.

 

Hi All...just ordered mine today up here in Toronto, Canada...a great deal with VISA so I got 25% off. Here's my config and price:


Intel Core i7-620M Processor (2.66GHz 3MBL3 1066MHz)
Genuine Windows 7 Professional 64
14.1" WXGA+ LED
NVIDIA NVS 3100m Graphics 256MB DDR3 with Intel Advanced Management Technology
4 GB PC3-8500 DDR3 (2 DIMM)
UltraNav with FPR
320GB Hard Disk Drive, 7200rpm
DVD Recordable, Ultrabay Slim
9cell, LI Battery TWSL
Integrated Bluetooth PAN 2
Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200
No WWAN support
1 Year Depot/Express Warranty



Subtotal: $1,971.00

Sale price: $1,533.60

[CAXVISAJAN10] -$383.40

Shipping and handling: $0.00

GSTax: $57.51

PSTax: $92.02

total: $1,299.73*

Total savings $820.80

I'm stoked...I've had a Dell 700m since 2004, my first and only laptop...till the T410!

 

I find that very strange, too.

 

Wow, you ordered 4GB and it only cost 1300 CDN? Good for you.

 

whoa this is really cheap, it is cheaper than the T400 even when it is on sale in Australia.

 

it is a super deal...it was through Visaperks, a deal specifically for Visa cardholders...perhaps you can check to see if anything exists like this as well in your country.

 

It makes you wonder if they have reasons to not want the unit reviewed by professionals.

 

Btw, what about HP and Dell's comparable models?

 

Wow, amazing find!

(for those interested, you have to go to the lenovo visa website then enter the code for it to work)

 

the t410 is amazing looking. they fixed pretty much all the problems i found with the t400. the top piece is a single piece, earphone plug on the right side, reduced the aweful expresscard slot to the smaller albeit still useless express card 34, 4 usb ports with most of them horizontal like it should (and I like the yellow color for the powered one), centered screen.. daym!

 

Considering that the NVIDIA NVS 3100m still doesn't exist according to Nvidia, please run GPU-Z and post a screen cap.

http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/

This will hopefully give those of us waiting on W510's something to look at while we debate what the NVS 5100M is.

 

The 8840W is close:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=448528

 

Comparison T60p (15'), T40 (14'), T410

http://img10.imgup.eu/image002_DSC_3365.jpg
http://img0.imgup.eu/image003_DSC_3369.jpg
http://img1.imgup.eu/image004_DSC_3371.jpg
http://img2.imgup.eu/image005_DSC_3374.jpg
http://img4.imgup.eu/image006_DSC_3376.jpg

Nvidia NVS 3100 GPU-Z
http://img9.imgup.eu/GPU-Z_T410.jpg

Author´s first impressions:
Advantages:
- Keyboard is excellent, no bending
- Joints has a very robust impression

Negative:
- Middle - between the joints - the display is relatively soft and buckle. The R51 was firmer. Overall, the display is more flexible than rigid.
- Area to the left of the touchpad for me appears that it is not firmly attached to the lower parts. In addition to audible creaks every time you press.
- Fan running all the time, despite in the small load of CPU.

Seems that it is more SL than T :-(

 

I ordered:

2516CT CONFIGURED SYSTEM
$1,552.35 $1,552.35
45M4819 SBB I.C.I7P.POP3 2.XXGHZ,XMBL2
45M3090 VBB GENUWIN7PROFES.64
45M4918 SBB G.WIN.7PROF64US ENGLISH
45M4798 SBB 14.1WXGA+TFT,W/LEDBACKLIG.
45M4792 SBB NV.NVS SW.GR.256MB-AMT,TPM
45M4813 SBB 56KV.92DESIGNEDMODEM
42X6309 VBB 4GBPC3-8500 1067MHZ2DIMM
45M4839 SBB KEYBOARDUS ENGLISH
45M4802 SBB U.N.T.POI.+T.PADW/FINGER.R
45M4834 SBB CAMERA SUBCARD
45M4828 SBB 500GB HARDDISKDRIVE7200RPM
45M4820 SBB DVDREC8XMAXD.L.U.SLIMS.ATA
45M4816 SBB 9CELLLI-ION BATTERY
39T6442 SBB COUNTRY PACK NORTH AMERICA
45M3043 SBB BLUETOOTH W/ANTENNA
45M4805 SBB IN.CENTADV.-N+WIMAX 6250
45M4809 SBB IN.MOB.BROAD.(3G)-QUALCOM
44C7986 SBB SIM CRD ATNT: USA
45M4874 SBB LANG.PACK US ENGLISH

with 3 year warranty & ADP!

 

Thanks for the screen cap of the GPU Z results!

Looks like the card is too new to show the nm manufacturing size. At least the name is what is supposed to be. Looks like it is clocked reasonably high as well. Interesting.

 

This has me a little concerned actually. I was just about to order one, but now I'm not so sure. My current 5yr old notebook is dying and the fan is running non-stop and driving me crazy. I don't think I could put up with that on a new system.

 

Here's the whole thread (Google-translated): http://translate.google.de/translat...nkpad-hardware/t-serie/82265-fakten-zum-t410/

3DMark06 score: ~3700

 

Did you try cleaning out the vent?

 

I concur. I also have a laptop going on 5 years old, and while the fan does not constantly run (only under stress), due to old age the heatsink/fan are really just not as effective. I have taken my laptop apart to clean the fan twice in the last year. Immediately after cleaning I ran 'yes > /dev/null' (which is a simple way of using 100% of the processor), and my temperatures hit over 100 and the laptop had to turn itself off. And yes, the fan does work, I have fairly normal idle temperatures (around 44C). Therefore, as I am in the market for a new laptop now, the cooling system is also of extreme importance to me. It seems that the T series has a very good reputation for cooling. I will definitely not be placing an order until I found out a bit more about this.

Thanks,
Ryan

 

you guys "just" need to clean up the bottom of the fan and the cpu with alcohol and put a little as5 on it and it will be LIKE NEW (~ a 5 USD for the as5 paste). though if your fan is rattling or so, replace it, if the rest of your system is still fine. an advantage of the thinkpads is that you get all these fru parts for a long time and for very reasonable prices (mostly).

 

Nuts. Mine's shipping from Shanghai. So I won't be getting it until Thursday. I noticed the discrete graphics option is now 15 days shipping, but I've determined yet again I don't need it..

 

Wow, that's nearly on par with the T500 with its Radeon 3650! Although the Arrandale CPU likely plays a part in that.

 

Here's a "quickie" look at the T410. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2358163,00.asp

Some preliminary performance results.

 

Am I the only one who is detecting some sort of media hype around the arrandale CPUs? Thru all the reviews we read subjective comments like "impressive improvements" and then it boils down to 10-20% better performance for same clock and same power consumption?

I mean.. 10-20% is good, but nothing really to write home about or lose your impartiality as a journalist.

 

Arrendale is the new platform from Intel, so yes. Tons of hype. Add the massive amount of new machines announced from CES and you have a journalistic perfect storm.

I wouldn't discount all the chatter as being biased, they are just comparing old vs new.

 

a 20% improvement is impressive in my book

 

Thanks again for the info oco1.

Put the data into a comparison spreadsheet here: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=5749727&postcount=405

 

Anyone here like to play games on the side on there thinkpads when they get a chance?
Just wondering if a quadro will be able to play some of the older games like UT....

And any word when the multitap models will be hitting the market?

 

Does the T410 have switchable graphics? Can someone confirm this?

 

yes

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=5752992&postcount=423

 

I don't know... I don't think we can say it is confirmed until we actually see them for sale. I can't exactly trust the word of a Lenovo Phone Monkey, especially when a Lenovo higher-up formally said very specifically that the T410/510 would not have switchable. I certainly hope they do have that feature, but I'm not believing it until I see it available for purchase.

 

It's listed multiple times has having switchable graphics in the parts/service manuals of the T410. If they get that wrong, too, I'd be super scared...

The biggest disadvantage right now is that you have to buy it with the 3G card.

 

It's a very safe bet.

The QM57 chipset has an "Intel® Flexible Display Interface," more commonly known as Intel FDI.

From Intel's website:

So GPU on the CPU die + QM57 = all the bits needed to make it happen. Lenovo would have to neuter the BIOS to keep switchable graphics from working.

That said, I did witness this type of behavoir from Dell on my recently returned Dell Latitude Z. Dell, in it's wisdom, decided to use a dumbed-down version of the Intel Storage Option ROM which only allowed IRRT RAID configurations rather than RAID 0 or normal RAID 1. The ICH9M-E chipset supports these RAID levels naitively. Dell wouldn't say why this was the case. I'm guessing it was a software licensing thing, but that's just me.

It was a shame Dell didn't allow the 2x internal SSD's to run in RAID 0. Would have been fast as hell.

 

oco1, can you do me a flavor?

Pop out the CDROM and look into the Ultrabay. Do you see the SATA connector on the right and the battery connector on the left?

Something like this:

 

Any word yet on game performance. I'm hoping to pick this up for all the things that make thinkpads so great and to be able play some older games on the side like Unreal touranment 2004.

 

Umm, only the T410s has the battery connector. They removed the bay battery connector on both the T410 and the T510. They want you to buy a new battery slice

 

Not sure how accurate this is, but supposedly it's been spec'ed:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-Quadro-NVS-3100M.24738.0.html

 

Yeah, just found that out. Was looking for visual confirmation.

The sales rep said it would work in the W510. Reps with bad info, shocker.