ThinkPad T400s - standard businessman

Not only is it thinner than its predecessor T400, T400s thanks to its capacitive touch screen and good configuration .

From the ThinkPad T400, Lenovo has thoroughly sharpened and refreshed it to get the T400s. The "s" character is the first letter of the word "slim". Not only thin, slim, the T400s also looks much more attractive than the elder. Recently this line also has a multi-touch capacitive touch screen version. The basic configuration of the ThinkPad T400s with touch screen is priced at US $ 1,999 (about VND 36 million), sold with ThinkVantage enterprise application software and many other security software and hardware.

Lenovo ThinkPad T400s. Photo: Cnet .

The T400s design has been so familiar to users for years. It has a black square frame with a classic but useful nipple. The device is compact, slim and lighter than previous ThinkPad models, but retains the robustness of the frame and chassis made of durable carbon fiber. Unlike many other laptops, the opening angle is 180 degrees, so the screen and keyboard of the T400s can be on the same plane.

Lenovo has devoted a lot of time and enthusiasm to rearranging the keys and testing many times to give the best design. Receiving user comments, frequently used keys such as "Esc" and "Delete" are made larger than usual. Keep the design of the keyboard tapered edges edge, the keys are arranged adjacent to each other rather than following the chiclet keyboard model of high-end laptop like Macbook, because attached to this design is the satisfaction as well as feel very comfortable of generations of users sticking to the Thinkpad brand for a long time. Besides, the T400s also "ignored" the trend of using multimedia touch keys, still "nostalgic" with physical buttons to adjust the volume and turn on / off the speaker.

Large touchpad, finely designed rough surface not only helps smoother movement but also a subtle highlight in machine appearance. A part of the design, attached to every ThinkPad generation, is the trackpoint between the keyboard and the dual mouse button (above and below the touchpad) that is maintained even if it is "a bit expensive". "area and not too necessary.

Large and rough touchpad. Photo: Cnet .

T400s has many new features and outstanding technology such as multi-touch capacitive touch screen, new Windows 7 operating system, friendly touch interface that allows dragging and dropping menus, folders, files with the same finger tips like on tablet. In addition, Lenovo also integrates its own friendly touch interface, SimpleTap for users to easily select and compare.

SimpleTap permanent in the corner of the screen with red anchor icon. Clicking on it will display a "touch" interface on Windows' desktop with large icons that allow users to quickly access system settings such as adjusting volume, brightness and screen. image, turn off the webcam, switch the working status of the device.

Also, by setting a shortcut to the shortcuts of the programs you use into SimpleTab, you'll have a touch icon that will quickly run the application. Besides the ability to change the icon, the background color, the position of the icons on the screen.

In fact, SimpleTap software, very easy to use and touch screen of the T400s is quite sensitive but not comparable to the screen of the iPhone or iPod Touch. There will definitely be many improvements because this is the "test" of the first capacitive touch screen on the new Thinkpad and SimpleTap models at the beta stage.

The main problem with the T400s is that it is still a traditional laptop, not a Tablet PC, but is equipped with a touch screen. So applications in practical use will be very limited except for basic tasks such as playing multimedia files, customizing when viewing photos. But with just that, the amount of money users have to spend 400 USD is not worth it.

Typical beveled keys. Photo: Notebookreview .

The T400s uses a 14.1-inch, 1,440 x 900 pixel LED display - the standard native resolution for high-end laptops, while the mainstream models still use 14-inch, 15-inch screens with a resolution of 1,280 x 800 pixels. . The Thinkpad laptop does not use a mirror screen but is covered with a special anti-fingerprint fingerprint that is especially useful for multi-touch screens.

Thinkpads are also among the few laptops that also have connection ports located on the back of the phone, which include both VGA and DisplayPort output ports, two USB ports (one eSATA / USB combo port and one USB charging port).

A "weird" point is that you will have to choose between SD / MMC memory card slot and ExpressCard / 34 expansion card slot in the configuration. The T400s version has an SD / MMC memory card slot, and uses a 128 GB SSD hard drive instead of a 200 GB HDD (5400 rpm).

Windows 7 Professional is not new to users who are familiar with Windows Vista operating system, but for those who still favor Windows XP will have to invest a bit of time to get used to it. The biggest difference is that there is no Show Desktop feature, but instead the Dock under the system tray is slightly skewed to the right - a small bright rectangular bar with new icons. And every time you hover over the icons, the open window will become transparent, but the mouse click feature will remain the same. The refreshed taskbar can display running programs as thumbnails every time you click on the program, and clicking on it will open the running program window.

The ThinkPad T400 is attractive thanks to the capacitive touch screen. Photo: Gizmodo .

The ThinkPad T400s is equipped with the most efficient and energy efficient microprocessor available today, 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo SP9600 CPU. The performance of the machine is very good for the price of 2,000 USD of business laptop.

The ability to handle multimedia files is better than graphics applications. According to the results of Cnet experts, iTunes compression test takes 149 seconds, and it takes time to complete image processing with Adobe Photoshop CS3. While the time to complete multi-task processing is 828 seconds, quite slow compared to other hi-end models. Those are the results of the test on Windows 7 operating system.

As for the Windows Vista operating system, the PCMark Vantage benchmark results of the T400s were 5,893 higher than any business laptop model, even nearly double the scores of the Thinkpad T400 (3,576) or the HP EliteBook 6930p (3,749) and Toshiba. Tecra R10 (3,490). But the graphics capabilities of the device are very limited by using only Intel GMA X4500 integrated graphics with 3DMark06 test results of 1,120 points, lower than the average of 1,479 points, and significantly lower than HP. EliteBook 6930p (1,792) or Toshiba Tecra R10 (1,643).

With a 6-cell battery, the continuous video playback time of the T400s is 3 hours 33 minutes, which is much higher than the high-end laptop models. Certainly with daily tasks like surfing the web, reading and writing documents, the time to run will be better. If you want to ensure enough running time for a day's work, you can equip an extra battery pack - the UltraBay battery for $ 119, but it can increase the battery life by 50%.

The slim body, like the one shown on the T400s. Photo: Apcmag .

In the Vietnamese market, the ThinkPad T400s mainly appears in portable and very rare forms. The basic configuration version costs nearly 33 million, but has not been equipped with a multi-touch capacitive touchscreen.