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Lenovo Combines Thin and Light With Powerful Performance in Latest ThinkPad T400s |
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Written by Hideo
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Tuesday, 23 June 2009 |
 Inspired by Lenovo's thinnest and lightest full-function laptop, the featherweight ThinkPad X300, Lenovo engineered its latest laptop, the ThinkPad T400s, to be super-slim at just 0.83 inches thin (at thinnest point) and ultra-light starting under four pounds. The laptop achieves its skinny frame thanks to the thin 14.1-inch LED screen, solid state drive storage and the second generation Top Cover Roll Cage, which Lenovo first introduced in the ThinkPad X300 laptop. The roll cage's monocoque carbon reinforced fiber, also used in bicycle frames and airplanes, helps keep the laptop extremely light yet surprisingly sturdy. With this design the laptop weighs nearly 20 percent less than its ThinkPad T400 predecessor, also making it much thinner and lighter than the Dell E6400 and HP 6930P laptops.
The laptop comes with:
• Choices of Intel® 2.53 GHz Core™2Duo processors (standard voltage) and Intel integrated graphics
• Choices of solid state drive storage up to 128 GB or 250 GB hard drive storage
• 9.5 mm slim DVD burner or Blu-Ray player
• Ethernet, WiFi and optional WiMAX3, WWAN,3 Bluetooth and ultrawideband connectivity
• 34mm Express Card slot or 5-in-1 multimedia card reader
• Support for Lenovo's ConstantConnect and Protect technology that
allows users to maximize integration of their BlackBerry smartphone and
ThinkPad laptop
• Nearly six hours of battery life
• Supports up to two monitors via a Display Port and VGA connector
• Meets the Energy Star 5.0 criteria for energy efficiency
• Built-in USB/eSATA port
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Because more people are using Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) for
communicating at the office, at home or on the road, Lenovo optimized
its latest laptop to make VOIP calls simple. There are three main ingredients for a high quality VOIP experience – the
quality of the video, the quality of the audio and the quality of the
network connection. For a great VOIP experience, Lenovo equipped the laptop with a two megapixel camera for better
quality images and to help in low lighting conditions. Lenovo also
pumped up the speaker volume more than two times greater than audio levels on the ThinkPad T400 laptop and added a convenient
toggle switch at the top of the keyboard to increase and decrease
volume. A similar feature can be found on the steering wheel of sports cars. The constant clicking of keys can be distracting when on a conference
call, so Lenovo added dual digital microphones. This helps reduce
ambient noise and improve speaker clarity. So users know whether they are on or off mute, Lenovo added separate speaker and
mute buttons with LED lights to indicate which button is on. For even more convenience, Lenovo added the ability to power on the
laptop with just the swipe of a finger on the fingerprint reader. And
an always-on USB port keeps MP3 players, cameras and other peripherals charged when the laptop is in standby or hibernate mode.
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