Lenovo announced the ThinkPad T400s laptop

Designed for Thin and Light

Inspired by Lenovo's thinnest and lightest full-function laptop, the featherweight ThinkPad X300, Lenovo engineered its latest laptop to be super-slim at just 0.83 inches thin and ultra-light starting at under four pounds1. The laptop achieves its skinny frame thanks to the thin 14.1-inch LED screen and DVD burner and the Top Cover Roll Cage, which Lenovo first introduced in the ThinkPad X300 laptop. The roll cage's monocoque carbon reinforced fiber, also used in bicycle frames and airplanes, helps keep the laptop extremely light yet surprisingly sturdy. With this design the laptop weighs nearly 50 percent less than its ThinkPad T400 predecessor.

"Thin and light computing is beginning to enter mainstream corporate computing," said Jeerawut Wongpimonporn, Country Manager (Commercial Business Unit) Lenovo, Thailand. "We've taken extreme care to create products like our ThinkPad T400 laptop that are thoughtfully designed and balance needs for thinner and lighter technology, strong performance and usability." 

Accharas Ouysinprasert, Country Manager, Intel Microelectronics (Thailand) Ltd. said, "For both SMBs and large enterprises, IT investment is becoming increasingly critical to their success. In order to improve efficiency, more and more companies these days are looking for added mobility and replacing PCs in the office with laptops. As such, the ThinkPad T400 series represents an excellent choice for business customers due to its high performance and energy efficiency Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor, and the first-class security and manageability features that people have come to expect from our Intel® vPro™ technology." 

Loaded for Performance

The T Series functions as the powerhouse series in Lenovo's ThinkPad laptop lineup.               The ThinkPad T400s laptops allows users to enjoy the best of both worlds - thin and light without sacrificing the powerful performance they need.

The laptop comes with:

• Choices of Intel® Core™ 2 Duo  processors (standard voltage) and graphics

• Choices of solid state drive storage up to 128 GB or 250 GB hard drive storage

• 9.5 mm slim DVD burner or Blu-Ray player

• Ethernet, WiFi, and optional WiMAX, WWAN and ultrawideband connectivity

• Up to seven hours of battery life

• Supports up to two monitors via a Display Port connection

• Meets the criteria for energy efficiency for Energy Star 5.0

Design Matters

Users spend a lot of time on their keyboards. A comfortable, easy to use keyboard plays a big role in their overall satisfaction with their PC. Knowing this, Lenovo spends a lot of time perfecting the design of its keyboard. The average user hits the Delete and the Escape key 700 times a week. To make it easier, Lenovo made them larger. Most people eat lunch now at their desks, which inevitably leads to crumbs piling up inside the keyboard. To help lock crumbs out, Lenovo tightened up the spaces between the keys. To keep the laptop thin, the touchpad lays flush with the palm rest. To make sure users know whether their fingers are on the trackpad, Lenovo developed a textured material to help them feel the trackpad's location. And with multitouch technology on the trackpad, users can scroll, pinch and zoom through documents.

Because more people are using voice over IP (VOIP) for communicating at the office, at home or on the road, Lenovo optimized its latest laptop to make VOIP calls as simple as using the telephone. There are two main ingredients for a high quality VOIP experience - the quality of the video and the quality of the audio. To improve these, Lenovo equipped the laptop with a two megapixel camera for better quality images and for helping in low lighting conditions. Lenovo pumped up the speaker volume more than two times greater than audio levels on the ThinkPad T400 laptop and also added a simple toggle switch at the top of the keyboard to easily increase and decrease volume.            

A similar feature can be found on the steering wheel of sports cars.

Because the constant clicking of keys can be distracting when on a conference call, Lenovo added dual digital microphones. This helps reduce ambient noise and improve speaker clarity. And so users know whether they are on or off mute, Lenovo added separate speaker and mute buttons with LED lights to indicate which button is on. For an even faster VOIP experience, users can activate VOIP in one step by hitting the Function and F6 keys.

For even more convenience, Lenovo added the ability to power on the laptop with just the swipe of a finger on the finger print reader. And an always-on USB port keeps MP3 players, cameras and other peripherals charged when the laptop is in standby and hibernates.

The ThinkPad T400s are available beginning immediately through Lenovo business partners and www.lenovo.com/th. Model starts at approximately at approximately   69,900 baht2 (exclusive of vat 7%).