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Was thinking of picking one up, but I'm curious how the T410 would handle World of Warcraft or the occational game of Call of Duty 4.

Thanks-

Ryan

Fairly competent this time around, seeing the Core i5 and i7 graphics can push games like STALKER around, the NVS3100m is a slight step up from that point... Expect medium settings at least at XGA? I haven't loaded anything onto my T410 yet but the NVS3100m GPU is definitely capable... And definitely capable of long battery life if you underclock it and lock the speed...

Well, it can push WoW on highest at 1376x768 or whatever that weird 16:9 resolution is which is what matters most to me. Also seems to run CoD4 quite well which I also like to play occationally.

Decided on the T510 vs the T410. Do you think its worth it to upgrade to the i7?

Navck wrote:Fairly competent this time around, seeing the Core i5 and i7 graphics can push games like STALKER around, the NVS3100m is a slight step up from that point... Expect medium settings at least at XGA? I haven't loaded anything onto my T410 yet but the NVS3100m GPU is definitely capable... And definitely capable of long battery life if you underclock it and lock the speed...

How long of a battery life?

1376x768 doesn't sound right...
1440x900 (WXGA+) is what you're looking for.

Personally with my usage habits, my T410 can reach 9 hours in battery life in normal usage, but most people are apparently unable to achieve 5 hours with the 9 cell (Perhaps some people are incompetent at optimizing their usage patterns and system configuration, but that is just a guess...)

Otherwise, I had dBPoweramp running with the i7-620m at 3.333GHz for a hour while browsing the internet over the wireless with the screen brightness set to 5/15 at someone else's house until I noticed that the battery was being discharged (Wall outlet was controlled by a switch, oops.) I didn't notice this until 3 hours in and the meter said I had around 4 hours of battery life remaining. I had 59% of the battery left at that point.

Otherwise, if you want to game on the battery... 12 volt powersupply and a car battery will keep you going for a few hours. In seriousness, just plug it into a wall.

I have the discrete T410 for anyone who thinks I'm doing this with integrated graphics...

I have not played any games yet (work notebook) but there appears to be a issue with the T410s and using the discrete graphics to drive a external VGA display, the screen is fuzzy and poor quality. This occurred on the Lenovo OEM build and our custom XP build.

Something new (and a potential work-around) for the T410s is both the integrated and discrete graphics can now drive two external digital displays I believe my old T400s could not.

By any chance is the external lcd an LG?

Every Thinkpad I've ever owned (probably close to all of them) have had fuzzy VGA video until you push the auto-adjust button on the LCD.

Harryc wrote:Every Thinkpad I've ever owned (probably close to all of them) have had fuzzy VGA video until you push the auto-adjust button on the LCD.

Using the auto-adjust on the LCD does not resolve the issue. I tested on HP 1945 and HP 1955 LCD screens.