Laptop musings

My current personal laptop is four years old in August, and it might be getting towards time to replace it. (Heavier than I like, extended battery makes it a weird shape, not great screen resolution, occasional hardware problems with the wireless dropping out, but otherwise works fine.) The current candidate, for a couple of reasons, is a Lenovo T400. Around hardware and Windows issues I tend to live in a cave until I really care, though, so can the greater interwebs help answer a couple of questions?

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