Lenovo Thinkpad T440s Ultrabook Review

One item to be aware of is the fact that Lenovo, for whatever reason, put a single 4GB DIMM in the T440s, which somewhat hamstrings the memory performance. There's an open DIMM slot inside the chassis, and for next to nothing you can opt for another 2GB to 4GB module to significantly boost the system's performance. We'd strongly advise this, as you're leaving performance on the table beyond just that of the extra memory, if you run in single channel mode.
The system comes loaded with software, and some of it is potentially useful while other items could be considered just bloat. That said, a lot of it is Lenovo-branded, and thus there are many dedicated tools and utilities to use.
One nagging aspect of this system stems from its price compared to the Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro that we recently reviewed. This ThinkPad T440s costs $1,309 as configured, but the Yoga 2 Pro is about $300 cheaper--yet the less expensive product offers a higher-res (although physically smaller) display, an attractive convertible design, and mostly better benchmark scores to boot. It just depends on your use case. ThinkPads are designed with the work and enterprise environment in mind. The keyboard area on the ThinkPad T440S is more spacious as well.
Still, overall we’d have to give the Lenovo ThinkPad T440s a thumbs up for solid all-around performance, a clean redesign, and its sturdy, resilient, industrial-strength construction.

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