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Got a T440s myself too (running Ubuntu/Xmonad). It's mostly a great machine, my model has 14"-fullHD-mat / i7 / 12Gb RAM / 256Gb SSD / 512GbHDD. The only real
by bpizzi 9y ago
Got a T440s myself too (running Ubuntu/Xmonad).
It's mostly a great machine, my model has 14"-fullHD-mat / i7 / 12Gb RAM / 256Gb SSD / 512GbHDD.
The only real caveat I can think of is the clickpad (no physical mouse buttons). That was a bad, bad decision. This piece of hardware has 0% usability, and under linux you need to tweak xorg.conf in order to get sensible defaults. Next generations of T4xx got it right however, trackpads with physicals mouse buttons have made their glorious comeback. Luckily I was already used to external keyboard/mouse, so that doesn't hurt as much as it could have been.
Question for whoever inside Lenovo knows the real story: what was the rational behind that whole clickpad thing?
- shimon 9y agoThey only made that mistake for one generation. We have to assume the rationale for the *40 models was "look, apple is doing it, clearly we can make this clickpad thing work". And then the rationale was "holy shit literally everyone who uses this hates it".
- nsriv 9y agoI had the exact same complaints about the Clickpad on my T440s, and replaced it with the pad from the T460s. You can find the part on eBay for around 45-60 USD and instructions to replace. It's a bit fiddly of a replacement, but mine works great!
- hyyypr 9y agoSame here, and the procedure is pretty straightforward.