Lenovo Thinkpad T-400

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Lenovo ThinkPad T400 is a business laptop that offers a strong combination of value, performance and portability. This notebook though not pretty in the eye is designed to enhance productivity by offering many features like long battery life, full keyboard, built-in wireless, hybrid graphics and many other features that we will see in a second.

Thinkpad T400 Performance Components

Intel Core 2 Duo T9600 2.8 GHz processor
2 GB of RAM memory
160GB of hard disk
7200RPM hard drive

The RAM amount of this notebook computer is optional if you order directly from Lenovo website, as well as the hard drive, but getting the 7200RPM hard drive is a plus to not degrade speed.

Build & Design

Lenovo ThinkPad laptops are rarely designed to look good ( all of them are black ) and most of them look the same, only with subtle changes, the ThinkPad T400 is no exception, but this laptop is built for performance and durability, thus making it one of the preferred laptops for system administrators and developers, and people expecting to get things done instead of getting irritated with their laptop.

Lenovo ThinkPad T-400 weights about 5 1/2 pounds depending on the battery size you get and features a LED backlit WXGA 14.1-inch widescreen monitor power up by a ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3400 video card. The screen brightness on the monitor is very intense even when reduced to conserve battery life you still have a good visibility of the screen.

It comes with enough connectivity ports to accommodate any gadget fanatic on the office or in the road. with 3 USB ports, 1 DVD/CD-RW optical drive, 1 FireWire port, and a headphone and MIC jack port. Lacking from device is a HD video output device like DVI, or HDMI port, people doing presentations with this laptop might not like the low resolution from the VGA output source. Other significant connectivity ports are a LAN port, media card reader, and a ExpressCard 54 slot.

The keyboard is a full size keyword and very convenient for typing, and as most ThinkPad laptops you have the red button on the middle of the keyboard for controlling mouse movement and clicking. ThinkPad T400 also comes with a touchpad ( most old Lenovo laptops don’t have a touchpad ) which make it very convenient to get used to this laptop if you are already used to a touchpad.

Conclusion

The Lenovo ThinkPad T400 notebook is built for performance and durability. Business people wanting to accomplish more in less time will be happy with the performance of this laptop, as do people working with many applications, and databases. If you don’t mind the extra pound, and small aesthetic flaws, but care a lot about getting things done fast on your computer, then this laptop is for you. You will love it for the years to come and won't regret even if you buy a used notebook computer.