Comments on: Leaked: Lenovo ThinkPad T410s coming January, minor upgrades

By: Arty

Arty — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:47:43 +0000

Relax, folks:

http://www.lenovo.com/shop/americas/content/img_lib/products/splitter/notebooks/ThinkPad/T-Series/gallery/T410-410s-510-1L.jpg

I’d be terrified if they removed it too though…

By: theo

theo — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:06:40 +0000

believe me. 14.1 T61p. best thinkpad ever (for my purposes). with discrete graphics. excellent display. 4:3. wish i found a geekfreak who could refurbish that thing to faster cpu and more powerful GPU. really sad, that as I see it, currently no thinkpad matches this profile.

By: viktor

viktor — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:54:04 +0000

they do. t61p, 14.1, 1400×1050 still rocks (wireless replaced…)

By: John Hobbes

John Hobbes — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:40:55 +0000

I imagine the W500, a 15.4-inch widescreen machine, was indeed heavier than your 14.1-inch widescreen T61. The displays are definitely hit or miss. But you don’t have a 14.1-inch T61p, they don’t exist. You instead likely have a T61 with discrete graphics.

By: theo

theo — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:31:52 +0000

Couldn’t agree more! I have been so happy with my 14.1″ T61p that features a great display. Unfortunately, it has become pretty slow recently. So pretty disappointing to see that no more 4:3 with great displays and discrete graphic power and 14″ format being produced by thinkpad. Tried the W500. Display is a catastrophe, a complete rip-off. Weight significantly heaviert than T61p.

By: Arvo

Arvo — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:51:38 +0000

True.
Exactly what I have been thinking of. I despise the 16:9 screens. If Lenove would come out with 4:3 ratio display, they would have another buyer.

By: Kirk

Kirk — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:47:56 +0000

Mobile discrete graphic cards can be very small, and fit within a Thinkpad chassis; my trusty T60 (which is about to be replaced by the T410 when it comes out) is very close in dimensions to the T410, and it has the ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 card, which is sufficient to play Left4Dead, Half-Life 2 (medium quality), etc., and which is great for off-loading HD video decoding.

I suppose this is one case where AMD could have an advantage, with the “Fusion” package that puts a real 3D GPU in the same package as the CPU. I’m upgrading either way – but how I wish Intel would field something better than their “GMA” crap.

By: Chip

Chip — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:11:47 +0000

These pictures are forged. On the third one (http://www.thinkpads.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/lenovo_thinkpad_t410s_leaked-3-150×150.jpg), the author did not implement the twin thinklights, and did not remove the T400s latches. He also did not bother add the second USB port on the left side of picture 1.

By: Dr. Duke

Dr. Duke — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:38:25 +0000

I am with you, changing monitors from a 4:3 to 16:10 and now the squat 16:9 saves the manufacturers a lot of pixels but makes the screens far less usable for 80 percent of laptop and desktop users. Why, only a small minority of people use the laptop for movies or video, and when they do, videos can show just fine on a 4:3 screen. Just because the video doesn’t show up on the whole screen only shows the terrible reduction of screen territory on the 16:10. Most people are using laptops and desktops today for, Internet usage, where a taller page with no need of scrolling is far superior, ditto for Word processing, desktop publishing. As an important tool, word publishing is by far the most used application on pc s today. Of course you would rather see a whole page than half of one or even a third of one! Same with internet pages! Same with viewing pdfs or e books of course. I don’t think magazine and book formats are going to go to an awkward very wide and very squat format.

Isn’t it great the manufacturers could tell us how advanced the new screens are, how cool they are with the new 16.9 format. Complete bullshit. We are being ripped off and given a product of far less usability, and the makers are saving money on pixels.

I hope some of the major reviewers will begin to get on this subject and maybe a manufacturer like Lenovo or someone else will put out a model line with the 4:3 format for the 80 percent of people who would greatly benefit.

One more note, the netbooks would really benefit from such a design because when the smaller screens are 16:9 they give such a small fraction of the page, they would be much more readable and usable from everything from web surfing to ebooks, pdfs and the like at 4:3 ratios, and they could still be of small size.

Best to all, maybe someone reading this could forward these ideas to both execs and reviewers.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:59:41 +0000

looks like they’re staying with 1.8″ since the hdd bay cover on the left side of the front is the same size as on the T400s

http://www.thinkpads.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/lenovo_thinkpad_t410s_leaked-4.jpg