Lenovo ThinkPad T400s Notebook Review

Name: Lenovo ThinkPad T400s Notebook Review - Page 7
Brand: Lenovo

by Jennifer Johnson — Tuesday, June 23, 2009, 12:00 AM EDT

SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software.

SiSoft SANDRA

Synthetic Benchmarks

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The T400s’ Intel Core 2 Duo SP9600 (2.53GHz) performed well in Sandra's CPU-specific test. The notebook had plenty of power for basic multitasking and multimedia playback, so results here were what we expected.

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In the CPU multimedia test, the T400s fared well, but it definitely didn’t blow away competing offerings. In real world tests, the notebook handled multimedia content well and didn’t drop any frames during playback of a 1080p movie clip.

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Memory bandwidth was decent on the Lenovo T400s, but not quite up to par with similarly equipped Intel GM45-based reference systems.

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The SSD in the T400s blew the competition out of the water in the Physical Disks test. We were certainly impressed with the drive’s performance in our real-world tests as well.

Tags: Lenovo, ThinkPad, Notebook, laptop, T400s, thin and light

Jennifer Johnson

Jennifer grew up around technology. From an early age, she was curious about all things related to computers. As a child, Jennifer remembers spending nights with her dad programming in BASIC and taking apart hard drives to see what was inside. In high school, she wrote her senior term paper on her experiences with building custom computers.

Jennifer graduated from the Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. After college, she began writing full-time for various PC and technology magazines. Later, she transitioned to the Web. In these roles, Jennifer has covered a variety of topics including laptops, desktops, smartphones, cameras, tablets, and various consumer electronics devices. When she's not playing with or writing about the latest gadget, Jennifer loves to spend time with her family, capture memories with her camera, and scrapbook.

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