Still good overall... but not as good as the T serie was
I'm overally very satisfied with my Thinkpad T400 laptop.It has everything that the Thinkpad is famous for: good reliability, good user experience, and everything. But I am also disappointed in a few places. The overall quality seems to be worse than earlier products, especially in some details. I might be picky, but I'm unhappy to find that the small locking pinch of the battery shaky and loose. I never saw this happen to any old Thinkpads. The DVD drive pops out very easily, even a slight touch would cause it pops out. And it's slightly annoying that I have to stop trying to move it and push the dvd drive back. Other things are generally satisfying, it's mostly still the old Thinkpad, it's cool, it's quite, it's black, it's solid and heavy. It doesn't have many fancy features with it, but it is really a pleasure to use. The keyboard and the ittle red point are my favorate. After using Thinkpad I just can't tolerate other laptops' hard and dry-feeling keyboards. The keyboard light is handy in dark. In a word, this is the old reliable Thinkpad, I recommend it. But I still hope they could pay more attention to details and keep its excellence.
zenyc
San Francisco, CA