Lenovo’s utilities seem to conflict with Windows Utilities. The Computer Associates firewall – shipped by Lenovo with the computer – conflicts fatally with Windows Firewall. There are similar conflicts between Windows and Lenovo utilities for power management. The Windows Vista product key printed on the bottom of the PC was determined by Microsoft to be invalid – Windows “Genuine Advantage” locked the computer until I manually validated Vista by calling the activation center. This happened at least seven times in six months. Optical drive is great except that no matter what changes you make in the power manager it doesn’t go to sleep in Standby mode – leave the computer in standby over night without a power cord attached and you’ll lose 25% of the charge you had.

The support from Lenovo and from Microsoft has been appalling – basically useless. I only call them when all other options are exhausted because I have competent PC help on site. Lenovo support’s only answer to any software problem is for the user to reload the factory configuration and start again.

It’s like a British sports car of twenty years ago – a complete pleasure to drive and outstanding performance, when it’s working. You just can’t count on it being there when you need it.

“On an ordinary laptop, when you hold it up with the lid closed, look at it from the side, and see daylight, there’s a problem with the design.”

The idea being that the frame doesn’t support the lid like it should, and weight on the closed lid isn’t properly transferred to the rest of the chassis, and that’s why some laptops have problems with keys/palmrests scratching the screen. Lenovo is better than that.

Or not. See 0:50 – 1:00 of the video review.(-;

I disagree with your statement on the trackpad, it’s one of the best I have used on a Windows-based notebook as I said. Engadget said the same thing, I believe so it’s not just me.

Trackpads are greatly a matter of taste and preference.

Thanks for the review of the T400. In my book the Thinkpad line has always been my favorite series from the 701 (butterfly keyboard) thru the 600 series to the T43 that I am typing on with.

I know that Lenovo has switched over over to a more “rectangular” screen from there square screen a few models ago…I still like the old screens and the higher resolution.

Also, correct me if I am wrong…but is the keyboard mainly black? On the T43 it is with the function keys grey in color. You indicated in the video that the keyboard was grey.

One more thing James. Doesn’t the T400 some with x34 card slot?

JohnD.

A T700 would be my next laptop, but since there are no plans for it to exist, I’m thinking about a 17″ MacBook Pro, even with the still-high-but-lower-than-it-used-to-be price.