This is just to share my experience. (I am in no way affiliated with
Technoethical.)
I am very pleased with the excellent customer care and the Technoethical
T400s itself.
When the ThinkPad T400s was first released in 2009 is was reviewed as an
excellent, well built but rather expensive system for about 2000 Euros. The
weakest point was considered the mediocre screen. The Technoethical team put
in a brand new screen which has perfectly neutral colours, very good contrast
and good viewing angles also. I've got 8 GB RAM (the maximum possible), an
128 GB SSD (instead of 64 GB) and the stronger dualcore SP9600 with 2.53 GHz
(instead of the SP9400 with 2.40 GHz) CPU. In addition I've received a caddy
adapter for replacing the CD/DVD drive with an other hard disk. And all this
for less than 900 Euros.
This is the most recent laptop of the very few devices world wide that come
with Libreboot and the FSF RYF label out of the box. The wireless does
flawlessly work right away with totally free software. This system fulfils
everything I need from a PC as a graphic designer. Image editing, desktop
publishing, multimedia and even light 3D gaming. Needless to say that common
office tasks as emailing and web browsing do of course work flawlessly. To
get everything done properly only few people do actually need more performant
working machines.
The only downside for power users on the go might be the limited battery life
of about two hours with wireless enabled. It is possible to get a new battery
which could extend the life to about 3 hours but because the battery is
positioned on the bottom front you can't use a bigger one. I would prefer to
remove it entirely since I mostly use the laptop as a desktop replacement but
the battery block includes one of the needed legs for sitting properly on any
desk.
Over all this is a great device that just works with entirely free software.
I thank the Technoethical team for offering this fantastic service. I can
only recommend buying one of those T400s laptops from Technoethical.
