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LaptopLogic ThinkPad T400s Review
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Lenovo’s ThinkPad T400s is a very thin, very light, and fully featured 14-inch widescreen laptop. Most people are familiar with Lenovo’s ThinkPad line and the T400 is a well featured, all-around bread & butter laptop. While the T Series was once the uber-svelte, latest & greatest flagship notebook of the ThinkPad family, recent iterations have seen proportions grow and uniqueness dwindle. Today Lenovo announced the ThinkPad T400s (note the ‘s’ moniker on the end, not to confused with plural T400′s), which sets out to bring innovation and class leadership back to the T Series.
Design
At first glance, the T400s looks like any other ThinkPad: black and rectangular. If you look a small closer, you will notice the subtly rounded edges, surprisingly thin profile, and very non-T400 port placement. The T400s brings in a number of design cues from the super-sleek X300/X301 models, including the same material construction.Carbon fiber is used for the top cover, with a unique glass fiber for the edges of the top cover to allow for un-diminished wireless signals. You’ll find a magnesium alloy in use on the bottom cover and keyboard bezel, adding to the chassis stiffness provided by the internal magnesium roll cage.
Open the black rectangle and you will see a familiar sight with a few tweaks. The TrackPoint and toucpad are redesigned with usability in mind, featuring larger TrackPoint buttons and a larger, textured multitouch-capable touchpad. Some of the system information LED’s have been redesigned and consolidated, leaving you WiFi, Bluetooth, and hard disk activity LED’s in the LCD bezel. But you also now have a Caps Lock LED on the key itself, mute and mic/webcam disable buttons with status LED’s, and the power button slowly blinks to indicate the system is in standby. These complement only two LED indicators on the exterior: a battery icon indicating AC power, system powered on, and battery status along with a sleep icon. Lenovo also updated their keyboard design, you will see the enlarged Esc and Del keys which have altered the layout. I will discuss more on that later.
The hinges are still silver, unlike the black metal hinges present on the X300/X301 models, and the speakers are placed on either side of the keyboard for optimal listening. Many people took exception to the T400′s off-center 14-inch widescreen, but the T400s has a centered screen. If you take a look at the bottom panel, you will see a honestly clean chassis with a single expansion cover to remove and standard 6-cell battery integrated into the front of the machine. Note that there is no room for an extended battery with this design.
Size and Weight
Having spent a lot of time with a regular T400, I can say that it is a bit on the portly side. Most configurations will weigh in at over 5 lb and it is about 1.1-inches thin. Combine that with the dimensions of a 14-inch widescreen and it is quite unwieldy as a portable machine. The T400s is like the T400′s skinny relative, weighing in at only 3.91 lb and a mere 0.83-inches thin. That difference in numbers really adds up when you get it in your hands. Thanks to the advanced materials and internal roll cage, the T400s is not only thin but incredibly rigid as well. Picking it up by one corner feels exceptionally sturdy and lightweight, like a heavy duty (paper) notebook.
Keyboard and Touchpad
ThinkPads have always been crowned as having the world’s best keyboards and the T400s continues, if not elevates, that lineage. The full 7-row layout is still present here and the typing experience is immaculate.Tactile response, key travel, and general stiffness are all incredible. Some of the regular T400 systems were plagued with extremely spongy keyboards, but the T400s looks to be void of any such problems.Ignoring the layout change for a moment, Lenovo also enlarged the size of the base of the keys to reduce any crumbs and such from getting in the keyboard tray. This doesn’t affect the key spacing itself, it appears they simply added more of a sloped base to each key to fill in the gaps; it appears to be a rather effective technique.
As I alluded to earlier, Lenovo did change the keyboard layout a bit. They did a study and found that the Esc and Del keys were highly utilized, but also a bit harder to use accurately and efficiently. To help remedy this, they enlarged the Del and Esc keys to nearly double their previous dimensions. To make room for this, they did have to compress the Function keys a bit and go the Ins key to the top row of the keyboard. In my experience typing on this machine, these changes were not overly detrimental. I found reaching for some of my common Fn combinations with my left hand to be trying, as I was always a key off from what I intended. Also users who relied on the Ins key will be very affected, as it is in a very distinctly different position now. I personally never had distress hitting the Del and Esc keys, but I can see how this change would help those with smaller hands or who had other accuracy problems.
For those of you not familiar, the TrackPoint is Lenovo’s “pointing stick” device that provides the same functionality as a mouse or touchpad. The red nubbin acts like a joystick and for those adjusted to the device, it proves to be highly accurate and allows you to mouse around without removing your hands from your typing position. The TrackPoint mouse buttons have been enlarged and softened a bit, with more of a curve than the sharp peak on other designs. I did not find this to impact my usability at all and I don’t reckon anyone will have distress adjusting.
The touchpad is another area Lenovo changed in the name of usability. In an effort to keep the system as thin as possible, the touchpad was brought flush with the palm rest and given a unique texture to differentiate from the palm rest. It is also larger than the rather small one found on regular T400 models, and now support multitouch features. The T400s’ touchpad is incredibly responsive and natural to use, with a sufficient surface area to be comfortable and efficient.
Show Quality
ThinkPads are traditionally business models and aren’t exactly known for high quality displays. A few models had exceptional LCD panels, but most are just average, including the regular T400. The new T400s uses a 14.1-inch 16:10 ratio widescreen LCD running 1440×900 resolution. This LCD is exceptionally bright, with plenty of brightness steps to find the optimum level. When viewing at the sweet spot angle, you will be in like with the T400s’ screen. It is bright, vibrant, and features crisp, dark blacks. Unfortunately, like most ThinkPad LCD’s and many matte LCD’s too, go about 5-10 degrees off the centerline and you dramatically lose dark details. Advance much further and you will see significant color inversing, although light colors remain in excellent contrast throughout. There is enough of a sweet spot on this panel that you won’t constantly be fidgeting, and the brightness and colors really are superb, but the T400s’ show doesn’t quite impress.
Ports & Connectivity
Despite being uber thin and light, the T400s has literally every port or connection you might need.Lenovo/IBM ThinkPad X60 Every acronym and abbreviation you can reckon of is included for wireless: 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi (with three card choices), Verizon or AT&T WWAN, UWB, Bluetooth, and WiMAX. Ethernet is included as well, although the prehistoric modem has been dropped and you can get a USB model if you need it. You’ll get 3 USB 2.0 ports on the T400s, including one that doubles as an eSATA port, and the choice between an ExpressCard34 slot or 5-in-1 card reader.
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