My current customer threw me a t440 with a dock to use internally.  
Decent - light, but sorely underpowered.

I slaughter 8gb of ram on the t440 with win7 seemingly like nothing, and 
the i5 proc will haaaaaaang visio forever doing complex edits of groups 
of shapes for sometimes 30sec.  Windoze is still a pig I think, maybe 
the hardware would be ok with linux.  I ended up jiving a virtual image 
out of them, and simply run it on my linux dell e7240 on the road or 
desktop as another vm under parent ubuntu, works wayyy better than that 
i5 t440 lenovo does native.

The screen was total low-def crap too on it.  Not sure if it was just 
the working econo-class laptop for employee drones, but anything less 
than 1080p on a 12" or bigger laptop should be scorned and made fun of.  
With my vbox vm fo the corp image, I give it 3 virtual monitors I run 
full screen across 3 monitors, and even win7 runs great under linux in 
virt with all their bitlocker, virus scanning, with the bloated 
microsoft os.  I have to give it 12gb of my 32 to keep it happy though, 
causing me to oom more than a few times in my parent system.

Before buying my dell, I looked at lenovo, and wasn't terribly impressed 
to find a powerful, lightweight laptop with a docking station.  With 
dell I found I could get a 12" 1920x1080 touch screen laptop, backlit 
keyboard, 16gb of ram, i7 (ulv, dual-core, meh), dp/hdmi out, and even 
with the crappy intel video runs ubuntu great.

The t440 sits on a desk now, I'm not at all impressed with it, at least 
with windoze on it, but the screen makes it a non-starter at all.

Oh yeah, that f'in Fn key should never replace a ctrl in the bottom 
left-most corner.  It infuriates me to almost throw it across a room.  
They really need to make a not-lame keyboard option.

-mb



On 10/07/2015 10:43 AM, Nathan England wrote:
> I have a T500 that I bought years ago. I begged and begged and Lenovo 
> support sent me the better hard-backed keyboard which I promptly 
> replaced. It was originally a core 2 duo 2.8GHz with 4GB of ram and a 
> 160GB 7200 rpm drive.
>
> The fan went out a week after the warranty ended and I never had the 
> extra 60 bucks to replace it, so it has lived on with the dual cores 
> disabled in bios and powermanagement forcing it to run at 800MHz.
>
> I replaced the hard drive with a Samsung 840 Pro SSD and still use it 
> with a single core at 800 and that laptop is faster than HP zBook with 
> a fancy new core i7 and 16GB of ram. Well, it was until I put the same 
> SSD in the zBook... but that's a different story.
>
> Long live Lenovo Thinkpads!
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