The thinkpad has a trackpoint/nipple mouse. The macbook is limited with just a touchpad. The macbook keys light up at inconvenient times, the thinkpads only l

The thinkpad has a trackpoint/nipple mouse. The macbook is limited with just a touchpad. The macbook keys light up at inconvenient times, the thinkpads only lights up when I want it to -- and it lets me read dead-tree notes easily I've never used screen zooming so I wont speak to it - the mac solution sounds nice though. The T400 has an obvious, provable way of quickly disconnecting from a network. It's like pulling out the netword cord. And it has an option to turn that off in software. The T400 connects directly to my projector, my monitor at home, my cheap plasma tv. For the mac I've got to drag around an extra converter thing. There are plenty of designs you can knock as not being "together". The thinkpad design is pretty well tested though.