T410s: keyboard was shaking upon my initial inspection

Hello folks
I always considered T410 and T410S as industry standard for business laptops.
So the first think I do when i inspect any laptop is checking how stable keyboard itself is. Most of the time cheap laptops keyboards are moving when I press 3 - 5 keys between a- f buttons.

How surprised I was to find that keyboard for T410S was moving like one found on $400 Toshiba.
Was display laptop at JR Music in NY was defected one?
T410 and my own SL400 are not moving.
What's your experience?
Does Lenovo keep quality of Thinkpads up to IBM standards or tendency to cut price and quality wins?

 

lot of the display machine are taken apart and put back together many times, sometimes these sales people whom put everything back together do a poor job and many times they forget to refit the screws.

If your T410 keyboard is not moving, you can't expect the T410s to have a worse off quality, given that they are built in the same period and they cost more.

Lenovo does have to reduce costs, but usually they do it in other ways, such as reducing the no. of parts used in the laptop manufacturing, choice of construction materials, the way the laptop parts fit each other, increasing compatibility of parts between different models, etc. T410s fit and finish is on par to the T4x laptops.

 

You mean you press one key and several keys around flex a bit? Something like that?
YouTube - T410 keyboard flexing

I have no personal experience, but I came across several t410s users experiencing this problem, which is why I quickly opted out of the t410s when I was debating between x201 and T410s.