T431s - close, but not here yet

[QWERTY Andreas]

So i was looking on some TPs, and found the T431s on Lenovos website. It is a drastic change in design. Take a look: http://www.lenovo.com/products/us/lapto ... asheet.pdf

Some thing, worth noticing:

Hard to upgrade
Better KB layout, with Space between function keys
4 GB RAM, soldered to the board
It is very thin
It doesn't have any dedicated Graphics Card.
Seems like it have dual fans.. I might be wrong.

Overall an interesting thinkpad, bringing some good Things and some bad Things.

What do you think?

[yak]

We've been discussing (disgusting ) it here:
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=108321

[Ibthink]

Hard to upgrade

Well, not really - if you study the HMM, you will see that it is pretty easy to upgrade: http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc ... 894_01.pdf

I think it is a pretty nice new design. I am really curious about the other new ThinkPads that will follow.

[yak]

I think it is a pretty nice new design.

There's a lot wrong with this design.
Serviceability seems to be quite good though, I agree.