Leah,
It does seem that you are making speculations and spreading FUD about the
Technoethical T400s laptop. And at least when it comes to quad-core CPU
compatibility, it does seem you know less than others about the only laptop
that you also sell (the T400).
You wrote: "the T400S can get quite a bit hotter than the T400, because the
T400S has less physical space for airflow". The words "can" and "a bit" show
that you are speculating without having run any actual test. You also haven't
provided any data to support your statement. To make it believable you then
continue with the theory about the physical space that makes the temperature
go up. This is a simplistic way of looking at technology and not worthy of a
professional, who has to take into account all related parameters, such as
power consumption.
This is a comparison between two processors of the same frequency (2.53 GHz)
that can be found in the two laptops. While the SP9600 in T400s consumes 25W,
the T9400 in T400 consumes 35W. Thus the SP9600 in T400s is "29% more energy
efficient" than its counterpart in T400.
http://www.cpu-world.com/Compare/285/Intel_Core_2_Duo_Mobile_SP9600_vs_Intel_Core_2_Duo_Mobile_T9400_(BGA).html
More power hungry processors tend to get hotter and need increased cooling.
It's not the case with the T400s.
We promised to run stress tests on both the T400s and the T400 to avoid any
doubts about the temperature. We have used clean environments running
Parabola with 2 processes of "burnP6" from the cpuburn package; while
watching the temperature with "sensors", from the lm_sensors package; the
tests ran for 1 hour. The T400s with SP9600 (2.53 GHz) operated at 92-98°C,
while the T400 with T9550 (2.66 GHz) operated at 94-98°C. When in idle, the
T400s w/ SP9600 operates at 40°C and the T400 w/ T9550 operates at 43°C.
This proves your claim is not true.
We don't take lightly unsubstantiated claims and your continued jacking of
this thread makes us believe that you feel threatened by our new product.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Thread%20Jacking
It also seems that you try to scare potential customers for our T400s laptop
by writing that "the T400S is less available than the T400, so it's less
possible to provide an extended warranty on it than with the T400". It's none
of your business how we at Technoethical organize ourselves and what we do to
ensure the 2-year warranty, how we source our laptops and spare parts, how
many laptops we have in stock and how we test/fix our laptops before shipping
them out. What you've done is just another speculation and FUD tactic. It
does seem we are doing a great job since all our customers are happy and we
had only one return in one year - an X200 - for a minor fix.
You then go on with "why would someone want to buy one of your T400S"? That
is a question everyone can ask themselves and you don't get to decide for
them. Some people appreciate more modern laptops and the hard work we put in
preparing each such laptop. We already have customers for the T400s, so you
can stop worrying that no-one would buy it.
We also sell Technoethical T400, which is not more expensive than the T400
Minifree was selling 6 months ago before going on sale in preparation for the
launch of X220 with coreboot. A customer would pay €608 EUR (£538 GBP) for
a T400 with 8GB, inferior N150 Single Band WiFi and Bluetooth 2.1 from
Minifree, compared to €568 EUR for Technoethical T400 with 8GB, N450 Dual
Band WiFi, and Bluetooth 4.0.
https://web.archive.org/web/20170103021357/https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-t400/
https://technoethical.com/tet-t400
Technoethical doesn't have Minifree's financial power to buy hundreds of
laptops at a time for a very small price, so we are the ones directly
affected by their price dump. A fair economy means being paid the right price
for your work, even if this means your products are more expensive. We don't
make any profit and we barely keep up with paying our bills. We hope that
we'll survive this anticompetitive practice and not get out of business. Time
will tell, but it would be rather sad for an ethical tech business such as
Technoethical to be closed by the actions of a business such as Minifree
which has made several compromises over the time, including shipping their
laptops with nonfree software:
"We will also install any other distribution that you prefer, on request,
e.g. Ubuntu, Linux mint, Arch, Parabola, OpenSUSE, Mageia, Manjaro, etc
request it in the textbox on the checkout page"
https://web.archive.org/web/20170117174519/https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-t400/
