T430s owners'/would-be owners' thread.

[wditters]

Hey guys,

I want to upgrade my wireless card from the stock Centrino Wireless-N 2200 to the Ultimate-N 6300. I know Lenovo employs whitelisting of wireless cards in the BIOS, but will purchasing something like this be fine?

Intel IBM lenovo thinkpad 6300 Wifi Wireless Card t410 W700 L412 L512 60Y3193 | eBay

I did that and it works fine

[Jann83]

Hi all

I'm new to this forum, but have readed alot past mounth here since i'm strongly thinking of getting the T430s.

Going to use it for school(mec engineering) in couple of mounths, yust woundering if anyone here use this for school or are going/plan to use it for study? Planning on getting the i5 verson since i think that will be enough for me.

Another small consern i've readed here is the battery life, some say 2 hours some say 4-5 hours and so on. If it holds atleast 4 hours it should be okei, and might aswell buy the extra 3cell sec batt later on.

Anyway i think this will be a good buy for the school, any opinions would be nice. Cheers

[XX55XX]

Just installed Ubuntu Linux onto my T430s. Everything works appears good so far - default wireless drivers work with Aircrack just fine, everything works, etc.

[species5618w]

Hi all

I'm new to this forum, but have readed alot past mounth here since i'm strongly thinking of getting the T430s.

Going to use it for school(mec engineering) in couple of mounths, yust woundering if anyone here use this for school or are going/plan to use it for study? Planning on getting the i5 verson since i think that will be enough for me.

Another small consern i've readed here is the battery life, some say 2 hours some say 4-5 hours and so on. If it holds atleast 4 hours it should be okei, and might aswell buy the extra 3cell sec batt later on.

Anyway i think this will be a good buy for the school, any opinions would be nice. Cheers

I think it's a very good laptop for school and the stock battery should be enough for 4 hours of light surfing. However, that's only assuming that you can't afford an Ultrabook or a MBA, or you would like to put some load on it that requires the extra heat management. Be warned, you will be disappointed by the display at first, although I don't think it will be that big a deal for most users.

If you need to do some note taking (like drawing a diagram or something), then consider getting a Windows 8 tablet in a few month. The EP121 was a great machine except for battery life and weak graphics (pre sandy bridge).

[Thors.Hammer]

Just installed Ubuntu Linux onto my T430s. Everything works appears good so far - default wireless drivers work with Aircrack just fine, everything works, etc.

Out of curiosity, whats the big draw with Ubuntu? Why Ubuntu over Redhat or one of the other major distros?

[spargo]

Howdy everyone.

I've recently had my T400 stolen so have been looking for a replacement (thinkpad is the ONLY option as far as I'm concerned). I require durability, reliability, and data security. I really liked my T400. It had a 9-cell battery (84.24whr) and would get 10+ hours of battery life, with an average of 6-7 with internet surfing. Even after 3 years of solid use the battery still had about 87% charge capacity and had no problem delivering 6 hours of battery life. Really a superb machine! The only complaint I had was its weight.

I strongly considered the X230, T430, T430s, X1 Carbon, etc. and eventually landed on the T430s for it's weight and slimness and screen size/resolution.

I ordered a T430s fully loaded (got a big insurance discount, etc.) with an i7, ultrabay battery, Ultimate lan, fingerprint reader, backlit keyboard, HD+ screen, and I'm upgrading it to 12GB RAM and an Intel 520 series SSD.

My hope is that it still gets me 6+ hours battery life with basic use, and that the screen is at least of the quality of my 1440x780 T400 screen. That wasn't the best screen obviously, but I was ok with it. If it's at least that good I'll be satisfied.

Here's my order date info:

Ordered 6/17 with estimated ship date of 6/24
On 6/25 the ship date changed to 6/28
On 6/29 the ship date changed to 7/4
Still hasn't shipped...

Hopefully it gets here soon and that all works out well!

[undave]

Ordered 6/17 with estimated ship date of 6/24
On 6/25 the ship date changed to 6/28
On 6/29 the ship date changed to 7/4
Still hasn't shipped...

I'm in Australia, and I've ordered the i7, 2gb ram, 128gb ssd, backlit keyboard, HD+ screen, advanced wireless.

I've had a similar experience, with 3 delays so far. I ordered 13th of June. I've called back again today, and the latest news is a ship date of the 6th of July. It seems they're just shifting this back indefinitely.

Any time I ask about what the delay is, they say that they're waiting on stock for the "L-case". I have no idea what that is, and they can't/won't give me more information. If it's optional, I'd remove it from my build, and re-order without it.

Is anyone else having similar delays?

[sklsy]

I'm in Australia, and I've ordered the i7, 2gb ram, 128gb ssd, backlit keyboard, HD+ screen, advanced wireless.

I've had a similar experience, with 3 delays so far. I ordered 13th of June. I've called back again today, and the latest news is a ship date of the 6th of July. It seems they're just shifting this back indefinitely.

Any time I ask about what the delay is, they say that they're waiting on stock for the "L-case". I have no idea what that is, and they can't/won't give me more information. If it's optional, I'd remove it from my build, and re-order without it.

Is anyone else having similar delays?

It has something to do with your configuration, I ordered mine i5 last week and it's already shipped yesterday. Good luck man

[spargo]

It has something to do with your configuration, I ordered mine i5 last week and it's already shipped yesterday. Good luck man

That's what I figured. My ordered system has:

i7 CPU
HD+ display
Integrated graphics
4GB RAM
Backlit keyboard
Fingerprint reader
Camera
320GB HDD
DVD
Expresscard + 4 in 1 reader
6-cell + Ultrabay battery
Bluetooth 4.0
Ultimate LAN

[undave]

Interesting. This is the parts that we have in common:

• i7 CPU
• HD+ display
• Integrated graphics
• Backlit keyboard
• Camera
• DVD
• 6-cell
• Bluetooth 4.0

spargo, are you also in Australia?