ThinkPad T410 looks gorgeous!

Hi all,

Today, at one of my clients, for the first time I saw a ThinkPad T410.

The chassis and build is the most beautiful and corporate thing that I ever saw. Also, I picked it up and it seems to weigh nothing. It's so easy to hold. The guy who got it was a bit upset though it was only 1280x1024 (I thought that dimension had gone out with the ark... ) but he will be plugging in to desktop screens and projectors most of the time anyway.

Contrast of text on screen could be a lot better. Re brightness, the owner had it on 12/13 indoors. Higher than 13 is too bright. Max is 15.

I was comparing the T410's looks to the T43 sitting close by, and decided that the T410 looks nicer. The T410 body is completely matte, whereas the T43's body and keyboard has a bit of a shine to it, which IMO, makes it look a bit toy-ish, i.e., a bit less corporate.

I hope that the T510 or W510 that I am planning to get next month P.G. will look just as pretty.

- avi

 

it seems these days that all the corporations are using macbook or imac. at least that's what the trend is going.

 

i don't think it's possible for that laptop to be outputting at a output resolution of 1280x1024 since that wouldn't be a widescreen resolution

 

1280x800
If he doesn't like that resolution, he should have gotten the 1440x900 screen, it's a $30 option

I always knew Australia was a strange and mystical land, but I had no idea it was THAT different from the US.

 

Yeah I believe he meant 1280x800. I would love it if it was 1280x1024! or Anything x 1024!

 

Ok, I also think it must have been a 1280x800.
I will have to take another look when he comes back from his globe-trotting training events.

Btw, most of my current and past clients -- I'm in the field of hi-tech R&D -- use ThinkPads almost exclusively.

 

Yeah... it's most likely the 1280x800 variant. The first time I saw a T400(before getting mine, that is) was another student at my college. It was his work-issued machine but only had the 1280x800 resolution... I really didn't like it, but I was using my UXGA T60p at the time.

Getting my T400 with the 1440x900 was a great move and while I might have my issues with the screen quality the resolution is decent.

 

I have not seen the trend of corporations going imac or macbook. There are number of corporations that is going to linux and trying to more away from the office suite but that a different issue. There are also number of corporations moving to dell notebook.

 

corporation going to iMac and Macbook? Personally this is not my experience. Most corporates have special software packages that has to be run on Win OS, and lot of corporation still uses XP OS. Due to the fact that upgrading the softwares to run in other OS mode costs a lot of money.

There are many small businesses that shifting to Apple, since it is seen as a good investment to liven up their office space, and they just run the regular office softwares.

 

>> it seems these days that all the corporations are using macbook or imac. at least that's what the trend is going.

There is a probably a dependency on your sphere of work.
Maybe there is a dependency also on country.

So ... I am in (i) hi-tech R&D and in (ii) Israel -- and where I am, I see mostly ThinkPads.

Other contributors to the mapping [Field, Country -> Laptop brand] ?

- avi

 

I will have to echo that I do not see Macs being used for mass corporate roll outs. I only see them for in small office use to look a part or for designers or developers that get to decide on what machine they get. So outside of a lot of tech companies I usually don't hear of people using Macs.