Upgrading from T41p to T400s

[MortenE]

I have been a proud reader of this forum for years, ever since my first IBM X20 and the following T41p. My family has been persuade into buying T41 , T43 and T61 series laptop. All of them has been brought secondhand and it has always been a good deal.

No doubt IBM/Lenovo laptops also has problem but the service center in Denmark is in the range of 10mills from me and the service has been very good though the time. Half of the comfort with a Lenovo is the service.

The T41p is getting slower and slower. Seems like the flash pages on the internet is what takes the power out of it and the simulation work in matlab needs more power( Or a better programmer guy . It also has some wear after a traffic accident 2 years ago and the hinge in the left side broke 2 months ago. Got a replacement but it was used and the lid is not at the best level.

So a brand new T400s is ordered ( 2700$ in Denmark , 25% sales tax) and is going to come with the mailman tomorrow morning. I am a little nervous, it is the most expensive IT item I have brought.. properly the most expensive thing I ever have brought (Still a uni student one more year). I read all the comments om the forum and reviews and hope it is a robust laptop with more power and it has the right “touch”. Specs. Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz (SP9400), 4096 MB ram , 128SSD

Pictures of the T400s will follow

Thanks for a good forum and many good thread's

[fuscob]

The specs of my T400s are the same as yours, with the exception of the SSD (mine is 64GB as I don't need much storage in a laptop). Enjoy the machine - I love mine!

[MortenE]

A littel update on the frist week with the T400s

First it came with a small gab between the lid , screen and frame. I was devastate and made some pictures of the damage and placed in the bag again.

Next morning I look at it and with a hard "touch" the frame snapped back and it was rock solid. I don't know were the gab came from but now it works.

The SSD drive is fast in benchmarks but the computer feels slow. Guss I am used to windows XP and the Vista interface is not my cop of tea.



Some times the multi touch touchpad stops scrolling ,goes the other way or scrolls fast. Feels like a driver problem , otherwise it is really nice.

The biggest thing is the CPU use when I am watching you tube. Who come it is loading both of the cores ?? The same CPU use as my old T41p .. some goods ideas ??




Otherwise it starts growing on me , the keyboard is very nice and the Intel 5300 wireless is fast !!!

[iamdmc]

To make it feel fast:

Install Windows 7

(also, do a clean install)

P.S. Vista sucks. Windows 7 Beta was faster and more stable than Vista SP2

[ThinkRob]

P.S. Vista sucks. Windows 7 Beta was faster and more stable than Vista SP2

Heh. Windows 7 *is* Vista, with a couple of minor tweaks to the user experience. If you found Vista too power-hungry, Windows 7 is going to be much the same.

That said, the T400s should have enough horsepower to run either just fine. Perhaps a clean install (free of pre-installed junk) is in your future?