T420i or U310?

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They both are almost the same price. I'm a Thinkpad fan, but want to get the U310 because of it's thickness and it has 3rd generation processor. The t420i has a nvidia nvs graphic card. So in performance, which one is better? I heard someone in here said the U series has bad cooling system. What do you think?

 

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you may want to wait for the T430u, which is a ultrabook. It will come out in Aug, hopefully

 

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But Im sure it wont be this price...

 

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As for the laptop, both are pretty much the same as far as usage is concerned. They're both lightweight, thin laptops that'll last roughly 4-6 hours on battery. The T430s will be built better though and have the possibility to upgrade to a business-class warranty, whereas the U310 (while a nice, mostly-metal laptop) is stuck with Lenovo service (IBM handles all Thinkpad service).

I'd lean over towards the T430s over the U310, but that doesn't mean that the U310 is a bad laptop. I just returned a U310 review unit and I liked it for what it is:

Lenovo IdeaPad U310 Review

ThinkPad T430 Vs. X230 Comparison, Choose Portability or Bigger Screen?

 

I don't think I can wait till T430 come out to buy because July is the only month I can buy a laptop.

 

You can't really compare a 14" workhorse laptop to a consumer ultrabook. Perhaps maybe if you compared an X220/X230 to the U310, you'd have a better comparison.

 

The reason I compare those two is because their price are the same. I guess I'll have to wait till I go back and see all the laptops that they have. Right now, I only have information that my dad send it to me...

 

Unless you have a need to do processor intensive applications, there'll be little difference between the CPUs. The best thing you can do to boost performance is upgrade the drive to a SSD or faster hard drive like the Momentus XT.

 

Turns out they don't have the t420i, but they have t420s
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Intel 2520M
QM76 chipset
4GB DDR3
500GB 7200prm
nvidia nvs 4200m
intel 1000 bgn
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the price is $9988, but they have a discount of $7580 now, but with the cheaper price, it doesn't have a dvd drive and the HDD is down to 320GB 7200rpm. Is it a good deal?

 

Is there a decimal place missing somewhere?

 

From the looks of things I think the prices are in Hong Kong Dollars so it would equate around $977 USD for the discounted price. The thing that surprised me is that even without VAT or Sales Tax, ThinkPads are still relatively expensive in Hong Kong. I went to the official Lenovo store a few years back and baulked at the price for some of their models, in the end I found I was better off buying it in the UK with VAT on top!

 

Ok, at last, I still bought it since I don't have time later. It seems great right now, but it feels heavy with all those Lenovo softwares...

 

But if I compare it to the US price (they don't have the t420s, so I chose the t420 to compare) Hong Kong price are cheaper. When I bought it, they gave us a lot of free stuff (speaker, USB memory stick, mouse) best of all, they upgrade it to 8GB ram for free...with a credit card cash back $500 seems like a good deal...