T400s appears to be gone from the Lenovo site

Question

Anyone know if the T400s is coming back to the Lenovo site?  All I see is the T400, T500 and T410.  I did read that Lenovo is backed up on T410s and T510 orders, and that's why they are not there at the moment.  I would think they'd still have a stack of T400s boxes to sell.

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mark_T40s wrote:
Jeez... this random shutdown thing sounds ugly.  I was just at the Microsoft store this evening.  They are selling the T400s (2801-AQU boxes) for just under 1100 bucks.  Seems like a deal I can't pass up... but not if I have to deal with this crap.  Seems like Lenovo is ignoring the forum community from what I can tell.
I've been using Thinkpads for years, but maybe I should start looking at a Mac.
Figure the T400s was not ready for prime time when it was released.
Mark_T40s: I do not think that every T400s has the shutdown issue. Certainly, mine doesn't. I have been using mine since late October, 12 hours or more every day. I had only one shutdown while I am away. The event log shows several Microsoft updates right before the shutdown, and I did not lose anything. So, it could be a MS's fault or a normal shutdown after the operating system figured out there was no unsaved work. On some Dell forum, I see users report the same shutdown. Among my colleagues and friends, only some said they had shutdowns and they only happened with Windows 7. Ubuntu appears to run problem free.
On the other hand, I have had good experiences with this forum and the Lenovo support. In October, I reported a ghost tap problem with the multi-touch LCD on T400s in this thread. I thought it was a hardware issue. In about 25 days as you can see from the thread, I was provided a new driver by a technician who worked on the problem and came up with a solution. The shutdown problem is much more difficult to deal with. It takes time to collect sample units, trigger the shutdowns, look for reasons, and come up with solutions.