Lenovo ThinkPad T400s run over by truck, left out in tornado in new spate of videos
By Laura June 
posted June 18th 2009 10:31AM
posted June 18th 2009 10:31AM
posted June 18th 2009 10:31AM
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What kind of animal would do this....
Por que? . . . . POR QUE!!!???
@El Capitan
Is that the sound you make after you catch swine flu?
i accidentally dropped my t61 from a table about 3 ft. high about a year ago on a carpet floor. the screen cracked. lies lenovo, lies.
A waste of money and time.
And reading/posting on engadget isn't?
not when you over estimate your projects and do all you commenting at work.
It's release seems imminent, some SE Asian Lenovo sites already list it on their sites:
http://shopap.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/sgweb/LenovoPortal/en_SG/catalog.workflow:item.detail?vt=5&GroupID=174&Code=282323A&hide_menu_area=true&hide_ad_area=true¤t-category-id=41AB4B1B55F74FF8833753D7713BB6D6
Lenovo Thailand:
2.53 GHz, 250 GB---> THB 79,000 = US$ 2,340
2.53 GHz, 128 GB (SSD)---> THB 84,400 = US$ 2,400
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Lenovo Malaysia:
2.53 GHz, 250 GB---> MYR 7,399 = US$ 2,090
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Lenovo Vietnam:
2.53 GHz, 250 GB---> US$ 2,248
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Lenovo Philippines:
2.53 GHz, 250 GB---> US$ 2,402
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Lenovo Indonesia:
2.53 GHz, 250 GB---> US$ 2,349
Same for Norway, expected price (as usual, electronics is super expensive here because of stringent consumer protection laws and taxes), pending confirmation (Komplett.no):
2.53 GHz, 250 GB - 2 820 USD (18 000 NOK)
2.53 GHz, 128 GB - 3 132 USD (20 000 NOK)
They still cheer when windows boots! Woo.
I would go for a mac insult, just to be the first, as we all know they are coming, as in wow lets see your mac do that!!!
But macs never take this kind of abuse, because their owners never leave Starbucks.
u forgot that mac users are also afraid of rain, big trucks, and anything else a real man deals with.
Occasionally spilling coffee over their keyboards is enough torture for them!
I prefer Caribou lol.
They probably have an app for that.
Actually, you're right. My MacBook Pro never leaves Starbucks, which is why it doesn't matter to me that my laptop is made entirely of aluminum, one of the softest metals on Earth.
It's still a good laptop though.
Probably wouldn't survive Kip running over it with Uncle Rico's van.
Well those were the most boring, uneventful videos ever.
Stupid video. I thought it was a real Lenovo torture test like the 35mps crash test into a brick wall. That video is pretty cool. @ Dan2600 Lenovo's have always prided themselves in their durability. Mac doesn't tout it can be dropped, rained on, pissed on, whatever, but I am pretty sure its hard drive will be totally fine if it were run over by the 26,000 Lb. truck as well. No I will not try it as I respect my electronics. I almost bought a T400. Its only flaw was Vista. I went with a Macbook (no I am not a Fanboy). Now if I ever had/or will have a Lenovo I sure as hell would not treat in any differently then my Macbook. BTW last week my 13" Unibody Mac fell off a 4ft. counter and hit my floor hard landing on the left front corner near its battery indicatior. I almost cried as I thought my computer would be toast. The metal unibody took the hit very well only leaving a couple of scuffs that are barley noticeable. I was really shocked it took the fall as well as it did. I will try however to never ever do it again. Just an FYI.
." I went with a Macbook (no I am not a Fanboy)."
Yes, You are.......
How does buying a product from a company make you a fanboy?
On a seperate note, i bought pants. and yes, i am a pants fanboy.
"Mac doesn't tout it can be dropped, rained on, pissed on, whatever, but I am pretty sure its hard drive will be totally fine if it were run over by the 26,000 Lb. truck as well."
Because Mac can't. Simple as that. If it could, we surely would have heard Stevie announce it in front of a live audience, see it mentionned in TV ads running every day from 8pm to 10pm and all the usual Apple circus.
"Its only flaw was Vista."
You can install whatever you want on a PC. Or, you can ask Lenovo to downgrade to XP. But truth be told: Vista isn't that bad anyway -- it's mostly FUD that lots of people spread without even having used it for more than a few days.
@ Hardik:
Utilikilts > Pants.
Fanboy. :P
@WickedEast
Umm, Yeah I did try Vista. I tried building a Vista Certified PC around Vista 64. I had hardware failures left and right. The problem was Vista. XP installed perfectly and has been used on my PC since. I am just tired of XP. It is too old and tired. Also Mac can run an OS as well but do inside OS X. Meaning I can have access to as many OSes I want without having to reboot. I currently have XP, Windows 7, and Ubuntu. So I think my mind is fairly open, unlike yours (I suppose I could have called you something but that may lower my self to your level).
@kastonie
Ummm, OK.
@sanman76
"Mac can run an OS as well but do inside OS X...."
its called a virtual machine. you can do that with any computer, you make it sound like its a mac only thing =/ ... im running xp as a host OS for virtualbox, its uptime is 8 months at the time of writing.
"...Meaning I can have access to as many OSes I want without having to reboot."
because you use 4 different oses, right? the people who need it run a virtual machine server anyways, not just a silly mac. macs are toys.
you seriously lost your credibility when you said "macs are toys." really? was that necessary? gosh i hate people like you.
"Lets see your mac do that"
Let's see almost any laptop to that.
I think we all know what the Thinkpad said after the ordeal:
"You've never seen it miss this house, and miss that house, and come after you!"
Is this a new T400 that we're talking about? Because this is the laptop I have from my company. Maybe corporate users get them first?
T400s. It is the slim version of the T400 at only .83in thick.
So the news here is: "laptop gets run over by truck and is non-functional, hard drive survives". That's it? If they plugged it into an external display and everything worked fine after getting run over, that might be news, but the MB was killed too. There's not even a comparison here - it's not like this is a problem that needs to be solved. How about a drop test against notebooks that are designed to be tough?
I think the rationale is that if you are doing field work and accidentally forget to pack up your laptop and run over it with your car, you will probably still be able to recover your data. Think police officer, real estate dealer, businessman on the go. Obviously its not a fully ruggedized machine, its a business notebook.
Our issue here is not that people destroy their laptops. Our issue is that people use their company-issued laptops for embarrassingly long periods of time because they don't die.
I think you and I are not the target market here; rather, that seems to be companies who realize they have ignorant clumsy oafs (sorry... 'accident prone individuals') of the C-level world who think the sun rises and sets on their folders full of pictures of their children for which no expense shall be spared to recover. It's a solution, as partial agreement with your statement, to a problem that does need to be solved, but really should be placed on the end user rather that pissing away budget on "more durable" equipment.
All the EMS guys and gals I know carry and use Panny Toughbooks. Some look like they have had the effen crap beat out of them but day in and day out those guys throw them everywhere and they continue to work.
I thought they were gonna leave the Thinkpad in the field and let the tornado have its way with it... that would've been interesting.
Too bad their cheap parts can't survive typical daily usage without throwing daily BSODs like all the other Thinkpads we have here at work. Or maybe Lenovo's just trying to throw their repairs department a stimulus package....
because we can...
If only it had an nVidia option like a 9400M and a SSD I'd surely buy one
@ Precurse
Your ignorance in the area of infectious diseases is incredibly evident (yet unsurprising), however, your bigotry shines through this lack of knowledge and asserts itself with racial insults and cultural disrespect. This statement is repulsive. Perhaps you should think and analyze before attempting to craft a "humorous" comment.
Good day, sir.
Is this supposed to be a joke as well? Because if not you're just an idiot.
i have an r61i, god was i lucky when my laptop slipped from my bed the back of the lcd hit the corner of my speaker right next to it, thanks to that magnesium roll cage with support in the LCD they put in the notebook it saved my ass and plus the active protection because it saved my hard drive from crashing too.
Too bad the R Series doesn't have the roll cage. Only the T Series and above do.
I believe the R60, R61, and R61i did have the cage, but not the R60e or R61e, and not the R400/500.
Sorry, I should have clarified. From my understanding, the newer R Series either don't have the roll cage all together, or in specific models, they only have the bottom portion and lack the roll cage for the LCD.
The T Series have the full roll cage regardless of model.
We have these at my work already? I saw you guys saying they were coming out, but three people already have them?
T400 is the series name. Not designated to a specific model with specific hardware. There have been several T400 models throughout the years.
Isn't the T400 on the United States website? http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/na/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:category.details?current-catalog-id=12F0696583E04D86B9B79B0FEC01C087¤t-category-id=0A759CA6FAC74C46BC91C724ECD09BA7
Have a T61 at the moment, solid machine
Looking to upgrade, but would definitely need discrete graphics. Even the nvidia 9400 would have done.
sigh
Is that a 16:9 screen? Or does the video make the lid/display smaller than it actually is?
Because it seems to me that if you closed that, the lid wouldn't even be as long as the base.
it's a nightmare ordering from lenovo.com, those morons take 60-90 days to deliver, very lousy customer service
The problem I've had with lenovo before is that your credit card address needs to be the same as the address you write on the web form, or else they won't ship it for security reasons.