Thinkpad T400S (multitouch) Vs. MacBook Pro

Hello,
I am recently going to purchase a labtop (for work) and am undecided between the Lenovo T400 S (multitouch) and the Mac Book Pro.
Advantage Thinkpad (previous experience)
- My last past 3 laptops are Thinkpad (no defect what so ever)
- Reliable & Strong (I saw about 3 months ago my baby girl (2yrs) standing on the labtop, & it still works )
- Multiple OS (Windows and Linux) support
Advantage MacBook
- Sleek design (Beautiful)
- MAC OS + Other OS (Windows, Linux, Unix) Compatibility
- Presentations style are great
Both are very similar in price (MacBook Pro = Thinkpad +200$ )
Configuration for both are similar:
- solid state drive
- WiFi/WiMax
- processor very similar
MacBook advantage:
- wider screen
- led screen
- bigger solid state drive
T400S advantage:
- multitouch
Questions:
1. Can the T400S support Mac OS? How about Linux (Debian)?
2. How strong is the casing compared to MacBook Pro or other Thinkpad?
3. Multitouch compatibility with which OS (Windows, Linux, Unix, MacOS)?
4. What type of SW works with this multitouch? CAD applications? Google Earth? Office applications? Vi editor?
5. Can this labtop (in theory) run all these applications: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89sz8ExZndc
Thanks
Gus

1. It probably needs some work around to do so, but it is not natively supported out of the box.
2. Well you can drive a truck over it, and still relatively undamaged in the hdd, motherboard, etc.... LCD is cracked. Don't think you can do that on a macbook pro. Even dropping a macbook pro is not advisable since the hinge on every generation of Macbooks are so fragile, dropping them could cause the cable in these hinges to break.. oh there is not much adjustability in the Macbook Pro screen hinges, so it can go through the 180 degrees of movement like Thinkpads can.
Oh Macbook Pro have built in battery, and anyone whom ever use laptops and that knows, built in battery is headache, when you need to replace them. And from the past, you can't really when Apple products battery would decide to kick the bucket on you.
It also doesn't have docks. When Macbook Pro dies, it dies, whereas Thinkpads you can take it apart and service themselves relatively easily, and use various parts from other thinkpads to resurrect it. Bit like Frankenstein.
Thinkpad T400s isn't suppose to directly against Macbook Pro, since there are T400 and T500, W500 and W700 to do that.
T400s is basically a X301s with bigger screen, more expansion slots and dock connector (Macbooks don't have them).
Macbook Pro are well designed machines, but they are restrictive in terms of aftermarket parts, serviceability and upgradability. I would also say reliability with Macbook Pro past certain years of use are not great.
Regards,
Jin Li
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The difference on their Photoshop test between the 2.53MHz "integrated graphics" model and the 2.66 was around 1%.
I suspect that this is because photoshop is really much more dependent on speed of drive access and the "number crunching" power of the processor itself than it is on the graphics processor.
The 13" 2.53 (with "full" graphics) comes up with an identical score on the photoshop tasks to the 15" 2.53 (with integrated graphics).
http://www.macworld.com/article/141144/2009/06/macbookprobenchmarks.html gives a comparison of the various 13" models too.
Cheers
Rod

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Hello,
I have MacBook Pro with wireless internet that works just dandy.
I also have a cheap IBM ThinkPad running Windows XP. It's from the stone age, so it has no wireless internet card.
Ethernet cable successfully connects the two, and I can transfer files back and forth using smb://, no problem.
But I really want is to be able to get internet on Windows using connection from my MacBook Pro.
Is this possible? Can I do it in system preferences somewhere, or would I have to go buy a router or something?
EDIT: I'm a Web Developer, so I just want to be able to connect to see how HTML files look on IE. If there is a way to setup a localhost and plug IP into Windows XP, that'd be a good enough solution.
RE-EDIT: Just figured it out on my own :S
Thanks,
-Adam
Message was edited by: yopogs
Message was edited by: yopogs

I figured it out
System Preferences -> Sharing -> Internet Sharing -> "Airport" + "Ethernet"

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