T430s owners'/would-be owners' thread.

[species5618w]

Good lord you guys are scaring me - Mine is not even shipped yet and seriously wondering if i should cancel... I just bought replacement/upgrade ram - I am ordering the mSATA (for cache) tomorrow (Probably going to hold off on this till i have the system in my hands.)

I'd say if you are looking for Mac quality or even ultrabook quality, better cancel. It's a $700 laptop, probably doesn't worth more than that.

[mrsean]

I'm here working on my company-owned T410 and i just performed the same test positions that jjmorse did in his review with the T430s screen. My screen looks exactly the same in the same three photos that he posted. Given that, I don't see any problem with using this screen for business or internet surfing. Yes. It is a little washed-out for my tastes but I haven't seen any modern notebooks lately to compare it to.

All the negative reviews posted here about the T430s screen have really frightened me out of purchasing my first Lenovo notebook PC. The X230 screen is way to small for my eyes, the T530 too heavy and the X1 carbon looks cheap.

My question to you all that are disatisfied with the T430/s is have you relayed your concerns directly to Lenovo? Venting here is okay, but nothing's going to change this way unless Lenovo is monitoring this forum.

[Kardon403]

I've made a comparison video of my T430s vs my old MacBook Pro 15, you can get a good idea of the quality of the thinkpad's display and speakers vs what was once a $2000 computer.

Lenovo ThinkPad T430s vs Apple MacBook Pro 15 - YouTube

[Pastel]

Hi, can anyone please tell me if the T430s has a thunderbolt port? This is a very important and is a dealbreaker for me if the T430s does not have it.

[s1148625]

Hi, can anyone please tell me if the T430s has a thunderbolt port? This is a very important and is a dealbreaker for me if the T430s does not have it.

i7 models have Thunderbolt. i5 do not.

[Thors.Hammer]

Hi, can anyone please tell me if the T430s has a thunderbolt port? This is a very important and is a dealbreaker for me if the T430s does not have it.

Why is it a deal breaker?

[Pastel]

Why is it a deal breaker?

I'm planning to do a egpu set-up and am betting largely on Thunderbolt. My predicament right now is that I need a semi-portable laptop for college to replace my desktop (I play quite a lot of games, use sonyvegas/autocad/output to a larger screen) and am not willing to go the route of gaming laptops. The W530 is too heavy and the graphics card is not comparable to my current GTX560Ti. Hence, if I can get egpu working with thunderbolt, which is little to no bottleneck, I can use my existing desktop parts (my psu and gpu) to the fullest extent.

[Thors.Hammer]

I'm planning to do a egpu set-up and am betting largely on Thunderbolt. My predicament right now is that I need a semi-portable laptop for college to replace my desktop (I play quite a lot of games, use sonyvegas/autocad/output to a larger screen) and am not willing to go the route of gaming laptops. The W530 is too heavy and the graphics card is not comparable to my current GTX560Ti. Hence, if I can get egpu working with thunderbolt, which is little to no bottleneck, I can use my existing desktop parts (my psu and gpu) to the fullest extent.

Good luck. The T430S should cover your bet two ways. ExpressCard or Thunderbolt.

A third way is of course XBOX.

[x3geek]

what converters are you using for mini displayport? I looked up on monoprice for mini-DP to HDMI, but it only supports upto 1920x1080 while my monitor is 2048x1152 (Dell SP2309w) while the cables there do not support audio.

[Thors.Hammer]

what converters are you using for mini displayport? I looked up on monoprice for mini-DP to HDMI, but it only supports upto 1920x1080 while my monitor is 2048x1152 (Dell SP2309w) while the cables there do not support audio.

What are you using to drive the monitor at that resolution today?