Lenovo ThinkPad T400s Notebook Review

Name: Lenovo ThinkPad T400s Notebook Review - Page 8
Brand: Lenovo

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

Lenovo rates the 6-cell battery that accompanied our T400s test rig for up to 5.5 hours of life. You can imagine Lenovo is going to go with the best case scenario for this battery rating, however. In our real world tests, we found the battery life to be around two hours and nine minutes using BatteryEater Pro’s Classic test.

Battery Eater Pro

Battery Info & Performance

Although we have to think that 5.5 hours is a bit of a stretch, it’s feasible that you would be able to get additional life out of the battery, provided you’re not working the machine 100% of the time with a heavy workload like we were during the battery test.

As you can see, there are other notebooks out there that beat the T400s in terms of battery life, but most of them are in different classes and are not as small or as lightweight. For users who require additional power between charges, Lenovo also offers a 3 cell Ultra Bay battery that provides up to an additional 3 hours of battery life when combined with the 6 cell battery, according to Lenovo.

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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