The Lenovo ThinkPad T400s (Multitouch) ($2,395 direct) incites lust among business users. It has the Lenovo ThinkPad X301's exquisitely thin dimensions, but offers a 14-inch LED widescreen. It's the lightest business laptop in its class—and that's with an internal optical drive. The latest edition (and bear in mind that this is not a convertible tablet) incorporates a multitouch screen that allows you to use one or several fingers to navigate the screen. It takes advantage of Microsoft's Touch Pack and other touch-friendly applications made for Windows 7 and is, bar none, the best implementation of a multitouch panel yet on a laptop. But since the screen itself doesn't rotate like that of the ThinkPad X200 Tablet (and therefore, it can't be used as a slate), finding the right business implementations for it might be challenging. Luckily, the X200 Tablet will be getting the same multi-touch treatment. The system ships with Microsoft Windows 7; as such, it won't be shipping until Windows 7 launches, sometime in late October.
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- Price as Tested: $2,395.00 Direct
- Type: Media, Ultraportable, Business, Small Business
- Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional
- Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo P9500
- Processor Speed: 2.53 GHz
- RAM: 2 GB
- Weight: 4.4 lb
- Screen Size: 14.1 inches
- Screen Size Type: widescreen
- Graphics Card: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD
- Storage Capacity: 128 GB
- Networking Options: 802.11n
- Primary Optical Drive: Dual-Layer DVD+/-RW
