T450 is for my wife to replace her T400s. I think she will be more than happy with 2TB of storage for her media files and she doesn't run too many programs. I still got 4 more months before my T430s warranty expires. Then, hello to ThinkPad Yoga 460

Yeah, did more research, you guys are right, no more mSATA but M.2 2242 instead. Was thinking MyDigitalSSD 256GB M.2 2242 NGFF SSD for $83 (on amazon) and Samsung Seagate Spinpoint M9T 2TB 2.5-Inch SATA for $94 (on amazon). A lot cheaper than 1TB SSD, so dedicated m.2 ssd drive with plenty of room f...

Been out of the loop since my T430s, now was thinking to get T450 since I see a few good deals. I noticed Lenovo complete revamped their line up with no external optical drive for 450 (thus, no caddy option for a 2nd drive) and you need to take the whole laptop apart to get to the main hard drive (a...

Thank you guys for feedback. I guess I can wait for now, but once I'm ready - will PM the "definitely trustworthy member"

Didn't realize it was soldered. D@mn Still haven't made up my mind about mobo swap. The price is right and job it piece of cake to do it myself; it's the other "political" factor of it being my wife's laptop lol!!! I might just end up giving her my T400s and getting a new T430s...

Just curious if anybody had success buying ebay replacement batteries for T400s? My concern is those on ebay (for under $20) are rated for 10.8V and 3400mAh, while original OEM is over 11V (don't remember exactly since using laptop now) and I think higher capacity. After 3yr of use and being plugged...

I figured since refresh of the screen fixes the problem, I would lean more toward VRAM issue suggested by George. Although, if its related to video card, wouldn't that mean changing only ATI x1400 video card instead of swapping the whole motherboard?

Yikes, no other way to fix it? Where can I get a new motherboard and how easy would it be to replace it? Thanks!

Sorry for an awful picture quality, just quickly snapped up close of a few screen parts. You see a bunch of red dots, which disappear as you scroll the bar or refresh the screen, totally random stuff. http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e328/twister6/t60-reddot-1.jpg http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/...

My old T60 (15" IPS screen) having a weird symptom, started a few days ago. In random parts of the screen I'm noticing red dots/dashes which do disappear once I refresh the screen (switch between windows or minimize/maximize the window). It actually happens more often on scrolling bars of the window...

Will be sending my T400s for repair, so had to dust off my "ancient" T42. Noticed a number of keys not as responsive (air dusted keyboard, its not food crumbs :)). So, I took a look on ebay and see a number of replacement choices. Is there a specific part number to look for? I saw one "39T0550, 39T0...

Been using various Thinkpads for over decade, and never know how to call that pointer, so will refer to it as trackpoint :) My older T60 all of a sudden got a problem with Trackpoint and freezing mouse cursor. No issues with touchpad, although its usually disabled but I had to enable it in this case...

I think its a problem with my hdd. I put another one from my other T60 and it started booting up to Windows (although crashed later since my work T60 is 14" with a different hw profile than my home T60 15"). I also took the hdd out of my "bad" T60 and put into USB external case. I can read the conte...

Just got an issue with my T60 (T7200, purchased back in 2006). Its out of warranty, and I'm trying to troubleshoot it myself. Would appreciate help! Last summer when I purchased my T400s, I stopped using my T60. Never had issues with it until now. Booted up last week, run System Update (all the driv...

And because you have had great success with your one T400s, you can positively state that the product as a whole is flawless, and therefore no one else anywhere should be complaining? And me coming here to see if anyone experiencing issues with their T4x0s deployment is giving people the wrong impr...

@dr_st: by "awful" I mean amount of failures and repairs. The previous T23 was not an exception. I spoke on a few occasions with our IT guys, and they always joke about us getting outdated rejects. I still believe there is a difference between consumer oriented orders and corporate orders (like in o...

Hmm, I see a common thread between these problems being T400s/T410s for corporate use. I had my T400s for over a year, ordered it on a day of introduction. I owned close to half a dozen of ThinkPads in the last 8+ years, T400s is my favorite and the most rock solid. Also, these problems described ab...

Awesome! This has been bugging me for the last 6 months and I couldn't find an answer anywhere. Finally!!!

I don't think the drive is faulty, it runs pretty ok. As I said, the noise is produced mainly by the echo of the table :( And according to the IBM/Lenovo site the III version of the adapter should work just fine in the T400. What is actually the difference compared to the II version? (furthermore, ...

WD Scorpio Black 320GB is what I have been using in my T400s with Ultra bay adapter III ever since July, and it whisper quiet. As a matter of fact, this drive is very high rated because of being so quiet and reliable and it also very popular among Macbook users. Since you have T400 and not T400s, yo...

I have exactly the same config as your T400s, except I'm running 320GB WD Scorpio Black in UltraBay (adapter III). I never experienced anything like this. Does it shutdowns completely or goes to sleep/hibernates? Has it ever happen with battery, not AC-plugged in? When AC-plugged in, do you see batt...

I'm running Arch Linux with the Intel 2.9.0 driver with KMS and my screen doesn't seem to blank (backlight + image off) when I close the lid. Does this problem happen on Windows? Any other Linux users experiencing this problem? No issues with Windows. Also, when you disconnect AC power supply, it b...

The speakers stopped working on my T400s as well (although if I held the laptop right up to my ear, I could hear them very very faintly). I sent it back to Lenovo service, they replaced the speakers, and everything is ok now. How long did you have your T400s before they stopped working? I had mine ...

Built-in reader that comes with T400s (option) doesn't suppport CF card. It supports SD for sure, I use it all the time. But not sure what are the other types under 5-1 since I haven't seen it listed anywhere else. I wonder if memory-stick is another one? So if you need to be able to read CF, like f...

As an alternative to keep from writing too often to your SSD, use it as a program drive while a "spinning" hdd in ultra-bay for storage and data/document files That's what I did with my T400s, 128GB SSD for program and Scorpio black in a caddy for storage.

So is there any hope for one of these vendors who manufacture SPVA or H-IPS to make 14" SXGA+ or SXGA panel in the near future to replace T400s? I would love to see that!!!

... and the notebook with good quality display would be? I can honestly say, from the experience of owning a number of Thinkpads and brief use of other laptops - T400s would have been Perfect laptop if it wasn't for the screen. I went to Best Buy a few days ago and looked at every laptop from Dell t...

Get PC Wizard 2009 freeware which does detailed analysis and let you know every part in your laptop. I think all T400s use the same display vendor. When I run PC Wizard 2k9, it shows display as "LTN141BT08001" part. Don't worry you are not alone with your disappointment about the screen. Its horribl...

No issue with T400s here. I got 128GB Samsung SSD (Lenovo option), and according to CrystalDiskMark have 204 MB/s Read and 183 MB/s Write.

All T400/T400s screens are TN. I absolutely love my T400s, but the screen is so bad... You are stuck with a very narrow vertical angle and slight movement up/down results in washed out colors. Keep in mind T400s comes with only one screen option. I think out of all T400x screens, high nit supposed t...