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With high-performance components, multifaceted interface options, a large battery, and the usual ease in installing upgrades, the signs are all good. Still, on the lid, you will notice a white ”ThinkPad” insignia cutting across the left edge of the matte black lid. There are also extensions of the warranty period (up to 5 years), with or without extended accidental protection (ADP). The brightness distribution is pretty good with 86% and we could not see any deviations with the human eye, even with a completely black background.
The predecessor T430, reviewed with the fastest standard voltage dual-core CPU at the time, the i7-3520M, is almost identical when we just use one core.This could be a huge drawback, and not just for companies with numerous devices sitting cheek by jowl.
You can get away with a 14-inch screen if you don't need a larger one, so long as you're fine with that size.You can also hot swap the cells without shutting down, providing the internal battery still has some charge. On the right side, Lenovo has spaced the two USB ports widely enough apartthat users can insert fairly wide components without blocking the neighboring port. It has been almost two years since we reviewed the direct predecessor, the Lenovo ThinkPad T430, but a lot has changed in that time. In the Battery Eater Reader’s Test (minimal display brightness of 4 cd/m², energy-saver mode, airplane mode), our ThinkPad T440p managed almost 15 hours.