T400 battery life is incredible. Are you going to switch?

[RaysMD]

I'm perfectly happy with my recently acquired T61p 14" SXGA+ Thinkpad. Battery life is maybe 4.5 hours with the 9-cell on Vista.

I'm torn between the battery life of the T400. The LCD might be good. I would only know for sure after I got my hands on one and compared it to my SXGA+ screen.


any takers? would you trade up?

[basketb]

I'm surely missing something, but if you want better battery life, why don't you get one of the X series?

[lilmanmgf]

I have a T61p that I have undervolted. When set to powersave I was able to get just under four hours while using Solid Works.

[Aroc]

I've happy with the battery life on my X61s and Dell D430. Actually, to put it in perspective, I'm still happy with the battery life on my T43 (about 2 hours left on a 6 cell with 367 cycles). I haven't had an opportunity to really test the battery life on the smaller units (both get well over 5 hours on the extended batteries). I did manage to run the X61s for over 7 hours once, though. The two spindle units (T61p and T43) are my mobile development and testing units (hence the two hard disks), I didn't buy them for battery life (else I would have just sticked with the one spindle units).

I imagine some will switch, though. Battery life is an important attribute in a portable computer.