Missing are an ExpressCard slot or an embedded wireless option

Calendar September 2, 2010 | Posted by admin

The bottom cover and keyboard bezel are made out of a magnesium alloy to protect the motherboard against flex. You also get Trusted Platform Module (TPM) circuitry to encrypt your data, plus Lenovo’s management utilities and rescue and recovery tools.

The other notebooks in this roundup have the same problem, but because they have 120GB drives, plenty of room is still left over for files.

If you’re not using the notebook as a primary computer, you can get by with 40GB, but an extra $35 will buy you an upgrade to an 80GB drive.

Missing are an ExpressCard slot or an embedded wireless option, so those looking for mobile broadband will have to use a USB device or tether a cell phone.

Our configuration had a 1.6GHz Atom N270 processor and Intel’s 945GSE graphics. Wireless connectivity comes from an 411462-442 internal Intel 5110 card that supports 802.11a/b/g/n and Bluetooth.

As noted, OCZ sent us a 60GB SSD and 2GB of DDR2 RAM to install in our test 432306-001 configuration; the Neutrino supports up to a 5,400rpm, 250GB conventional SATA hard drive or an SSD ranging from 30GB to 250GB.

If a child is spending too much time playing Solitaire, the PeeWee Patrol can store a parent-approved schedule that 436281-251 prevents unlimited gameplay.

Parents can also schedule Internet usage for certain times of the day, to limit usage to when a parent is present, for example (such as before dinnertime, or never after 9 p.m.). You can even control when and how often the kids use the Webcam.

The slick, iPhone-esque interface is optimized for the gesture-enabled touch screen, so you can scroll through photos by swiping your finger or rotate them by spinning two fingers touched to the screen.

You can opt for a memory-card reader in lieu of the ExpressCard slot, but you can’t have both. And as with other recent laptops , a modem is a thing of the past.

The ThinkPad T400s sports a docking connector on the bottom, but note that with this generation Lenovo moves to its new Multidock Expansion format, so your T400 or other, older ThinkPad docks won’t work with this laptop.

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