Best Laptops 2014 Lenovo ThinkPad T440s Reviews - Lenovo's
ThinkPad T Series laptops have a legendary reputation amongst business
users or anyone who needs to get serious work done. The 14-inch ThinkPad T440s continues this rich tradition, offering long battery life, strong
performance, a best-in-class keyboard and an optional 1080p touch
screen, all in a durable, 3.8-pound package. However, with a price of
$1,749 ($1,199 to start), this productivity-centric laptop doesn't come
cheap. Is the ThinkPad T440s worth the investment?
Lenovo's ThinkPad T series line of business laptops have long been known
for their powerful performance, long battery life and superior
usability. The 14-inch ThinkPad T440s builds on that rich tradition,
offering a gorgeous, 1920 x 1080-pixel touch screen; a durable,
MIL-SPEC-tested design; and the most responsive keyboard on the market.
With more than 14 hours of endurance with the extended battery, this
lightweight powerhouse lets you get your work done in style, anywhere at
any time.
Design 2014 Lenovo ThinkPad T440s
The ThinkPad T440s has the same chassis as the ThinkPad T431s,
which launched in spring 2013, and carries the same design language as
other ThinkPads. You'll find a smooth, raven black casing that features a
carbon fiber lid and magnesium chassis. Like the T431s, the T440s has a
rather plain matte black lid instead of the luxurious soft-touch,
rubberized lids Lenovo used on the older ThinkPad T430s and T420s. A
ThinkPad logo on the lid provides a splash of color with a red light in
the letter "I" that blinks when the system is asleep. The famous red
TrackPoint and a couple of red lines on the touchpad add accents to the
deck.
Performance 2014 Lenovo ThinkPad T440s
Thanks
to its 1.6-GHz Intel fourth-generation Core i5-4200U processor, 8GB of
RAM and 256GB LITE-ON SSD, our configuration of the ThinkPad T440s
offered very strong performance that was good enough for demanding
productivity work. On PCMark 7, a synthetic benchmark that measures
overall performance, the T440s scored an impressive 4,970, well above
the 3,445 thin-and-light laptop category average, the Toshiba Tecra
Z40's mark of 2,524 and the T431s' 2,884 score.
With
its speedy 256GB SSD, the T440s booted Windows 8 in just 14 seconds,
half the 28.4-second category average and a bit less than the ThinkPad
T431s (16 seconds). The drive took just 27 seconds to complete the
LAPTOP File Transfer test, which involves copying 4.97GB of mixed media
files. That's a rate of 188.5 MBps, more than triple the 57.9 MBps
category average and eight times the Tecra Z40 and its 7,200-rpm hard
drive.
The 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display notched a more
impressive 299.4 MBps performing the same test in OS X Mavericks.
The
ThinkPad T440s took just 5 minutes and 14 seconds to complete the
OpenOffice Spreadsheet Macro Test, where we match 20,000 names with
their addresses. That time is more than a minute faster than the 6:21
category average, but almost 30 seconds slower than the Tecra Z40 and
its 1.9-GHz Core i5-4300U CPU.
Graphics 2014 Lenovo ThinkPad T440s
The T440s'
integrated Intel HD 4400 graphics chip achieved a modest score of 930 on
3DMark11, a leading synthetic graphics benchmark. That's a little below
the 962 category average, but well above the Toshiba Tecra Z40 (869)
and ThinkPad T431s (530).
When we fired up "World of Warcraft" at
the T440s' 1920 x 1080 native resolution, the system achieved a
not-quite-playable frame rate of 29 fps, which dropped to just 15 fps
when we turned up the special effects. Both rates are well below the 66
and 29.9 fps category averages.
Battery Life 2014 Lenovo ThinkPad T440s
Lenovo sells the ThinkPad T440s with a choice of batteries, a 3-cell, 23.2
watt hour unit and a 6-cell, 72 watt hour high capacity battery that
costs just $5 more. In addition to these removable batteries, the T440s
has a nonremovable 3-cell internal battery that gets drained after the
external pack is dead, so you can change batteries without shutting the
system down.
With the 3-cell 23.2 watt-hour battery, the T440s
lasted 7 hours and 1 minute on the LAPTOP Battery Test, which involves
continuous surfing over Wi-Fi on 40 percent brightness. That time is
more than 30 minutes longer than the 6:27 category average, but not as
lengthy as the Tecra Z40's runtime of 9:28. (To be fair, though, the Z40
has a much dimmer screen.)
With its high-capacity battery, the
ThinkPad T440s lasted an epic 14 hours and 36 minutes, making it one of
the longest-lasting laptops we've ever tested, Though the the
high-capacity pack costs just $5 more on Lenovo.com, it juts 0.5 inches
out from the bottom of the laptop and adds 0.4 pounds.
source: laptopmag
