It was fine for single finger operation and what I'm saying applies equally to every other Windows laptop, I imagine. Quite frequently the touchpad wouldn't react to your fingers when it should, or would react to the palm when it shouldn't. The gestures were a bit of a joke, as it couldn't reliably distinguish between you using your fingers and the palm-check. This probably has less to do with the hardware, but is a limitation of the drivers and the OS, which was Windows 7, 64-bit, by the way. The touchpad of the T410s is quite simply poor by comparison. The inertia-based two-finger scrolling is, like I said, a joy. Things like the palm check and two / three / four finger gestures work very reliably. The touchpad by comparison is a joy under Mac OS. Add to that the awful chiclet design - I kept missing keys - and I felt quite badly hampered by it. No Delete key, you have to press Shift-Backspace instead. Pause/Break, Print Screen (as far as I remember), Insert. In general there are also keys missing on the Mac keyboard. I have software that makes use of the function keys and find the gap between every 4 function keys, missing on the Mac, extremely helpful for blind typing. I'm used to the layout, even though slightly changed on the T410s. Ultimately my main reason for choosing the T410s was the keyboard. I am a long-standing (25 years) DOS / Windows user and cannot live without Windows for professional reasons, so that also factored into it. Long story short, I sold the Macbook (13" unibody, 2009 model) and kept the Thinkpad T410s, but this is a very personal decision. I have been there almost exactly, having had both. Also let me know if there are any gotchas that I haven't considered in my decision process. Please share your thoughts on all of this. I would get the 3 year warranty with either. I can get the IBM retiree price if such a thing is still offered, so that may drop the price a bit. I haven't checked prices on the T410s, but when I configure one on the web, it gets be be more expensive than the macbook pro (I'm trying to get the best configuration with respect to graphics and SSD on both, and I believe the 410s has an option for better graphics than the macbook pro). Familiarity with Windows and all of my apps would just run (although I'd be new to Windows 7). Better mouse (but I would probably have to learn how to use it to get the most out of it). Better overall quality (although some people seem to be complaining about sharp edges). My reasons for considering a mac is that everyone I know that has one swears by it - never crashes, great battery life, etc.įrom my preliminary research, it looks like: Plus getting a unix shell prompt straight out of the box is cool! I have a few apps that only run on windows, but I could probably live without those. I've never used a mac, so I'll have a learning curve there, but I figure that should be fun. Nothing wrong with the machine yet, but I don't want to wait until that happens. I'm currently a T60 user and that has served me well for the last 4 1/2 years. There have to be others on here that were in a similar situation, so please share - which did you choose and why? I'm trying to decide between one of these for my next laptop.
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