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I've done a fair bit of reading about the two models Lenovo Thinkpad T61 and t400, but can anyone out there who has actual experience with both answer this for me? Is the battery the same as the T61 laptop? Is there any real reason for up-gradation from t61 to the t400?
Lenovo’s ThinkPad T61 is the company’s top-of-the-line desktop replacement notebook. This is a hardcore, power-user notebook with extremely high-end specifications, making it a bleeding edge notebook that’s as future proof as notebooks get. The keyboard remains the same between the lenovo r61 battery and lenovo t400 battery -- meaning it's once again excellent. The only difference is that now there's more room on the keyboard side areas since the notebook body is wider, the speakers have been relocated to this extra real estate.
The T61 delivers all the typical ports, including FireWire and both PC Card and ExpressCard slots, but there's still no memory card reader.The display of the T61 is especially strengthened, and so, it scores better now than the also very robust T60. A special comb construction under the displays cover further increases flexural rigidity and pressure resistance.
You can get the LED backlight LCD on the T400, and also the new switchable graphics in some model.While, you can also use the faster DDR 3 ram in the new T400. Dimension wise the ThinkPad T61 14.1" certainly changes from its predecessors, it is wider but not as deep since it has shifted to widescreen. T400 is basically the 14.1 inch version of the T61, T500 is the T61 with 15.4 inch, while the W500 replaces the T61p.
The right-side of the T61p offers an 8X DVD-R and CD-RW multi-reader, along with two USB ports. The performance of the T61 is also very passable. The combination of the new Intel Core 2 Duo processor with an NVIDIA Quadro video card ensures excellent benchmark results. Like any notebook, the T61p comes with a software bundle. The majority of the pre-installed software is the ThinkVantage tools, which are mostly useful.
The T400 offers extensive configuration options in regards to hardware equipment, it can be equipped with a whole row of Core 2 Duo processors with vPro technology. The ThinkPad T400 comes with 7200-rpm, 160GB hard drive, which uses an Intel Core 2 Duo 2.53GHz T9400 processor with 2GB of RAM and a 256MB ATI Radeon Mobility HD 3400 GPU.