What do you recommend?

Hi all,

I own a t410s. It's 4 years old and need hard drive replaced.

I'm considering either buying a t440s, or an x1 carbon, or maybe just replace the hard drive and wait for what else lenovo is coming out with (as well as win 9)

I'm not sure what I should do. Honestly the keyboard concerns with X1 don't bother me much because I don't use functional keys much any way. However, I'm thinking they might fix the next x2 keyboard, which would be preferable.

My t410s is actually ok as long as I replace the hard drive. The battery isn't too bad either, despite being 4yrs.

What do you think?

 

Stick a SSD in that baby and watch it fly.

 

Care to share how you take care of the 4yr old battery so well?

As for your question, my advice is to test both machines and see if you can live with the adaptive keyboard layout. I can't although I really like how the X1 carbon looks like.

 

Well, about a year ago I ran the option in power management where it recover your battery (forgot what it was). It's in the advance section of power management.

Other than that, just thinkpad control fan. My second and third year, I take out the battery whenever I use it. I only plugged it in when I carried around. But I guess that might not work for some of you I didn't go to the extreme like done ppl who out their battery in the fridge though haha.

I'm not sure if Best Buy has X1 so I can just try... Sending back and forth seems like a hassle

 

+1 here.

T410/s was actually one of Lenovo's better moments in my opinion, and can still serve - presuming a SSD and 8GB RAM - as a capable daily driver for most people.

 

Yes, I have 8gb ram.

How long would it last if I replace the hard drive? I'm guessing it costs about $100 and I'd rather investing in something else if it's not gonna last more than 2 years.

 

The problem with the "s" variety of T410 is that it takes 1.8" drives and not the standard 2.5" ones.

Spinning 1.8" offerings are slooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow....as well as expensive for what they offer. Which is not much to speak thereof.

If you locate a NOS (New Old Stock) Crucial C300 or Intel (X-25M and/or 320 series) in the 1.8" format you'll seriously rejuvenate the machine and breathe new life into it.

 

Are you kidding man? My 4500MHD-equipped, core2duo with 4gb ram x200 can multitask the living hell out of anything i throw at it, it's so fast and responsive. Your machine is using nehalem tech, has more ram support, and has a better GPU. For 100$ needed to make it fly, the only reason you'll want to sell it any time soon would be if you were actually pursuing high-performance workstations.

 

Once again, I concur.

Not to mention that the amount of $$$ such a sale would yield nowadays ($225-250 presuming no HDD but with 8GB of RAM, in excellent physical shape and on a good day) is pitiful when compared to usefulness of the given machine as a daily driver...

 

Thank you!!! Exactly the type of info I need

 

The Crucial C300 1.8"/Intel X18-M was great back in the day, but nowadays there are even better, newer and most importantly, more easily available alternatives:

-Crucial C400 1.8"
-Intel DC S3500 1.8"
-Micron C400v 1.8"
-Micron P400e 1.8"

I'm happy to provide a full list of compatible 1.8" SSD. There are quite a few out there that not many people are aware of. Another alternative would be to install an mSATA SSD via adapter.