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4.0 stars
"Really good but could be better"
Pros: Build Quality, Great Dock options, thin and light
Cons: Could be faster, have more connections, brighter screen
Summary: I have been an IBM/Lenovo T series user for the past 12 years or so and while they have progressed they have also stayed the same. The widescreen is a perfect example of that- it is a T series and it always means the same thing:
PROS:
1> Great build quality- "perfect" keyboard although some of the HP keyboards and Apple Macbook pro are very good now also.
2> The Chinese had the foresight to put a higher res widescreen (WSXGA+) on this model- too many laptops are settling for cheesy WXGA widescreens- simply not enough resolution for business use.
3> The docking options are fantastic- I guess this is why they keep saying it is for "business"- the dock solution is what keeps the Apple MacBook Pro from taking over the laptop market. Business users simply must have a dock.
4> Security and hard drive protection built in
5> Always looks good in black while others try to chase trends
6> It is light for what you get and the battery is really good
7> The prices have come down somewhat from previous years but they are still pricey when tricked out
8> IBM/Lenovo keeps a lot of bloatware out- but they could still do better at that
But the T series always has the same negatives:
1> Screen is good and usable for sure but could be about 20% brighter!
2> Would like at least a firewire port added
3> For the price you pay they could have at least a better vid card with 256 megs of RAM- the X1400 is so 2002- why not a 256 meg X1600 at least. Even business users like to crank up Call of Duty 2 and shoot some Nazis every now and then- hard time doing it on this machine. in the next two years sub $1000 notebooks will have better video than this unit.
4> IBM usually installs their own wiereless app even with the intel wireless option (that I chose) and from time to time it will give you fits trying to connect to a WEP enabled network. Rare but rears its ugly head every now and then.
The perfect laptop has yet to surface but this is as close as it gets. However if one really wants performance and graphics at a price check out the new Asus notebooks (they manufacture for Apple) if they ever learn how to market here they could be a force- but for now- the T series is the only way to go for me and my business- I have bought about 40 of these over the years for my employees.
4>Updated
T series computers tend to be slower than most- don't know why the specs are all the same and this widescreen is no different not a "dog" but my sons Dell with P4M is way faster than this Core 2 Duo machine we both have 5400 RPM hard drives - dont about the cache memory of mine or his tho.
