Good point, GrandMasterKhan! I definitely fall into the former category with the mocha late and the cinnamon buns and just how did you know I already had breakfast first??? Haha.

Mine came from the factory with the faster 10600 RAM. It doesn't run any faster than the standard 8500, so it's really not worth a premium. I only got it as it was the only way to get 8GB total ram from the factory (they didn't offer 2 x 4GB 8500).

I don't find mine huge or heavy in the slightest. I was shocked when I took it out of the box just how compact and light it actually is. A few months later now, I'm still regularly shocked every time I pick it up. Now, bear in mind that I downsized from a very large, very heavy, 17" Toshiba Qosmio G...

By the way the 8 GB RAM you have seems to be quite expensive right now, any reason for having 8 GB RAM. I plan to have 4 GB RAM and then upgrade to 8 or 12 GB RAM in one or two years once the RAM price is down. What is your thinking on this? To be honest, I likely don't need 8GB of RAM at the momen...

Well, I'm not sure exactly how common it is, but I just found that other thread I remembered reading a while ago. It was on notebookreview forum:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/lenovo- ... lines.html

Honestly I don't think you should wait for the FHD. The HD+ is really quite good so far as I can tell (and I'm relatively picky). The FHD is also a 95% colour gamut screen, which is really only beneficial to those doing professional photo/video editing and production. The increased resolution might ...

Ok, so they aren't THAT annoying, but they are noticible enough for me to want to consider buying and putting in a different screen into my computer. So, could anybody possibly link me to an ebay auction with the HD+ screen Lenovo uses or just a screen that will work and is of better quality. The c...

Shoot, sorry, in my haste I didn't realize those instructions were for nvidia. There is a similar procedure for the intel.

Try this: http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/T400-T500-a ... 492#M23281

Yep. There's another setting you have to change. Here's the instructions:
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/T400-T500-a ... 889#M26384

Seriously though, SD cards below a gig are in dollar stores now. I think this may be the mfgr's reasoning for not including dummies these days. You can pop in any cheap one and use it for readyboost if nothing else. (what I do) The only drawback to that is the card will be consuming [an admittedly ...

Here's the one I ordered: http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie ... K:MEWAX:IT

Does anyone know if Bitlocker can be bought separately ? I'm going with Windows 7 pro. 64 bit. I would like to encrypt all backup drives with it. Sadly, no. You have to have either Ultimate or Enterprise edition o Win 7 to get Bitlocker. You can upgrade your Pro to Ultimate online by paying MS a fe...

2.) Which wireless adapter to buy and does it really matter ? I did read that there were 2 antennas & 3 antennas etc. But has anyone really used it and seen a significant difference ? Here are the 4 options - a.) ThinkPad bgn Wireless b.) Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1000 [$0.00] c.) Intel Centrino Ad...

Please post on this thread on the Lenovo forums, someone from Lenovo is investigating: http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/T400-T500-a ... td-p/77975 Page 3 has the request for info from people affected.

Do you have the WXGA or WXGA+ screen?

I have 1.15 on my T510 and it dramatically improved my keyboard! There was a known issue in the older BIOS verisons of both the T410 and T510 (and some other models too) where the keyboard would sometimes mix up the order you typed certain letters in when you typing quickly. That has gone away with ...

Oh that reminds me, there is a difference in the heatsink supplied. I think it's copper with discrete and aluminum with integrated. Don't quote me on that, but it's definitely different.

I'll chime in on a few of your questions; the rest I don't know how to answer. 2. The T510 lists two displays - HD and HD+. The help on the Lenovo site covers all other panel types, but doesn't cover the HD ones - I'm assuming they're 1600x900 (but the WXGA and WXGA+ differ in resolution, so may wel...

Must be some kind of a sale/promotion on the one with discrete graphics? Normally it is a bit more $ than the integrated option. For the scenario you've described, the Intel HD graphics are ideal. I've never seen the discrete option in person so can't comment on it's relative noise. But in terms of ...

Thanks a.b.e. that is an interesting link and shows that the i5-520M is better than the T9400. But it also shows the i5-520M as better than the i5-540M, which doesn't quite make sense. Anyone else have insight on this? Thanks all. Loof My guess is it's a quirk of the test. Both the 520M and 540M ar...

Interesting that your memory score is only 5.9; my T510 with same CPU (and therefore same memory controller, since it's on-die) scores 6.7 for memory. I do have 8GB though, not sure if that makes a diff to the WEI numbers. Also my RAM is the faster PC3-10600 (1333MHz), but it only gets run at the re...

Okay I agree that some people are just impossible to please. However, this paritcular creaking issue IS pretty annoying. (In case anyone isn't familiar with it, I documented it in this youtube vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIV3y-ho8_w.) And I have to say I'm just not comfortable taking apart m...

Great question! I was planning to order something from eBay. But this begs the question, why on EARTH doesn't Lenovo include one with their laptops? I'm sure they couldn't cost more than pennies each in bulk for a dummy plastic SD insert. Even my cheap Asus netbook came with one in the slot. Come on...

Navck wrote:1. What creaking

This creaking: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIV3y-ho8_w

Bear in mind if you do go with a T510, there is still a chance of having the left-side palm rest creek (mine does quite a bit) and the packaging is just as lousy. I don't think I've noticed a lose screen bezel or misaligned logo, though I may have just not noticed!

Question: I do have a T61 (model below) with NVS 140m that runs my 30" Gateway LCD 2560 x 1600 through my 2504 10U dock which has DVI Passthrough. Can I run this LCD in some way with the T510 / T410? Does the version of DOCK for T510 have a DVI-D Passthrough? (To run this 2560x1600 would Intel HD V...

As per what you're saying at that high resolution it has to be Dual Link DVI-D..? Cannot be Single link DVI? Right. Actually I just looked on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Visual_Interface) and it says that Single-Link DVI supports up to 2098 x 1311 in the 16:10 aspect ratio. So y...

i-SnipeZ wrote:I haven't noticed it on my buddies T510 and upgrading the screen would cause me to have to wait for at least a month for it too ship! (At least according to Lenovo's site)

Oh right, I forgot that it's on short supply right now. Yeah maybe not worth the wait, then. Enjoy your new system!

I've got everything figured out except I'm not sure whether I should get the fastest i5 or the i7, I don't think I really have any reason to go with the i7, so here's the configuration I'm probably going with. That sounds like a really nice configuration! You probably don't need the i7, that's true...

Yes I've been very happy with mine also, especially since the latest firmware came out (1.15) which fixed the keyboard issue. My only complaints to this date are fairly minor: a bit of palm rest creak (I actually posted a video of it on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIV3y-ho8_w ), and the C...