Lenovo ThinkPad T410 Review Discussion

[MidnightSun]

My T500 is far from having any thermal issues, so I've had no reason to take additional measures to improve cooling. The recent generations of Thinkpads have been known to have very robust cooling systems. The T510 seems to handle heat very well, and I haven't heard any complaints about the W510, but some users have been complaining that the T410's fan runs more often and louder than the T400's.

[san diego]

Have a question to those of you who have the T410. I just got it, all excited, works wonderful EXCEPT for the battery life - very disappointed. I paid extra for the 6 cell cos the review mentions over 5 hours battery life. I am only getting 1 hr 40+ minutes. I've charged and used a few times, thinking it's just new and needs to be fully charged a few times before it reaches full capacity. Nope, still giving me less than 2 hours battery life. How can I correct this? is this your experience as well? Also, i can't find where it actually says, on the battery, that it's a 6 cell vs a 4 cell? Did they send me the wrong battery? Thanks in advance for any advice on this...

[allfiredup]

Have a question to those of you who have the T410. I just got it, all excited, works wonderful EXCEPT for the battery life - very disappointed. I paid extra for the 6 cell cos the review mentions over 5 hours battery life. I am only getting 1 hr 40+ minutes. I've charged and used a few times, thinking it's just new and needs to be fully charged a few times before it reaches full capacity. Nope, still giving me less than 2 hours battery life. How can I correct this? is this your experience as well? Also, i can't find where it actually says, on the battery, that it's a 6 cell vs a 4 cell? Did they send me the wrong battery? Thanks in advance for any advice on this...

That really sucks...you may have a defective battery (or possibly the 4-cell).

Lenovo assigns a number to ThinkPad batteries and it's either 25 or 27 for the T410. Assuming it's 25, the 4-cell would be simply '25', the 6-cell would be '25+' and the 9-cell would be '25++'. The product numbers from the 4-cell and 6-cell are as follows-

4-cell: 51J0498
6-cell: 51J0499

Hopefully, you'll be able to identify your battery from that information...

What are your main specs- which processor, hard drive and display do you have? Do you have Intel integrated graphics or the NVIDIA discrete graphics card?

I couldn't find a single review of the T410 where the 6-cell lasted under 3:09. And that was with the i5-540M, NVIDIA graphics, WXGA+ (1440x900) display and a 7200rpm hard drive!

[viox]

any real word on battery life aside his? I'm very close in pulling the trigger on a t410, and i f i am not getting any close to the t400 battery life then it's a no -deal for me


King regards

[sgogeta4]

If you use integrated graphics on the T410, I'm sure you'd get better battery life than the T400 (assuming similar components and battery capacity).

[jasperjones]

The WXGA+ screen on the T410 with dedicated graphics offers good color reproduction with better than average contrast.

Question: did you measure the contrast of your WXGA+ test model?

Other reviews have stated that the contrast on the WXGA+ display is far below average. I perfectly realize that it doesn't follow from this that either the NBR review or the other reviews are wrong. Displays can differ from laptop to laptop, even for the exact same model. I'm just curious whether or not you actually measured contrast quantitatively.

[rippeer]

I also love the thinklight for the many reasons that others have posted. Is it just me or does the WGA screen look alot better in terms of brightness then the WGA+. I think it's going to be the determining factor for me between the ingrated and discrete

[rippeer]

The brighter screen on the left is the WXGA model and the dimmer model on the right is the WXGA+ screen.

Are you sure about that? The one on the left seems to show more of the colour wheel making me think the higher res WGA+ screen...

Can anyone else comment please?

Also what does w/ww ant stand for on the ordering page? Is this for Wi-Fi or something else like wimax>

[san diego]

Thanks for the feedback. I have a basic T410 - no NVidia and I am a pretty basic business user, no fancy games or long videos. I have also played around with the power settings and changed it to minimal performance and everything else minimal when on battery. Not much better. The notebook is now only showing 2 hours 25+ minutes after a full charge. It's been a week now, it's not getting better. My husband just got his T400 and after the first full charge it was showing 6+ hours of battery life. I think i got a 6-cell lemon!! or it's a 2 cell or something else. Will call tech support first thing tomorrow!

By the way, this battery is flush with the notebook while the T400's 6-cell sticks out. Does that confirm they sent me the wrong one? I see some discussions mentioning that the 6-cell for the T410 was flushed. (That's why i've never bought this stuff online before. Maybe i won't do it again without having seen and touched it first)

[invisible]

I found something interesting today in the tabook that I think would explain the flex in the LCD cover.
According to the tabook;

Case material: Top: High Elasticity PolyCarbonate (HEPC);
Bottom: Carbon-Fiber Reinforced Plastic

High elasticity PC in the LCD lid. I think that's why Kevin reported so much flex.