Electronics & Appliances » Computers & Laptops Electronics & Appliances » Hard Disks, Printers & Monitors We found 23614 Ads Electronics & Appliances » Washing Machines Electronics & Appliances » Games & Entertainment Electronics & Appliances » TVs, Video - Audio Electronics & Appliances » Kitchen & Other Appliances Electronics & Appliances » Cameras & Lenses Electronics & Appliances » Fridges Electronics & Appliances » Computer Accessories Electronics & Appliances » ACs Do you have something to sell? Post your ad FOR FREE on OLXIn the past months there have been lots of discussion about getting the thin and nimble T460s or choosing the power of the T460p i7 quad-core. So, since I was undecided as well, I took both of them :). You can compare them in this gallery. Actually, I initially just took the T460p (here's my first impressions thread), but then, tempted by some discount on the s, I decided to give it a try, to see which model eventually keep with me¹.

The tiny one is damn sexy, but hell... The big guy is fast! As I wrote in the t460p thread, once I took the p in my hands, I wasn't shocked... The feeling wasn't so great and the plastic top cover together with the not so strong hinges, didn't make me feel so much the thinkpad quality. When I took the s out of the box, instead, it has been love at first sight. I really like the shape, how it's thin, light and very sturdy at the same time. You really feel you're holding something that is one piece. Well, I've mostly said in the previous section, but the Carbon-Fiber Reinforced Plastic and the Magnesium alloy (which seems to be all over the places) of the s it's way better of the p plastics. Unfortunately the bigger guy has that ABS plastic top cover which is not as strong nor feels sturdy as the bottom part. Considering how thin is the bottom side of the T460p, I'm really curious to understand why they decided to go for a 7mm thick LCD cover. They really could have used a stronger material (at least as in the T460) saving some precious space.

Also the palm resting area of the s doesn't feel plastic. The one in the p is comfortable, but still it looks cheaper (as in fact it is). Once closed, the slim version feels something that you can bring around and it stays as it was, while the powerful model gives the impression of being less secure. In general, for this point, there's no competition: T460s wins. Again, I don't see impossible to put a quad-core inside a similar shape, considering the thin bottom side of the p. I chose backlight keyboards in both the models, but while they have the same size (and apparently) the same key travel, once I started writing with the s, I felt the keyboard way better for my hands. Keys feel more robust and have a stronger feedback. Also, performing some typing tests with that keyboard, I can achieve the maximum WPM results with less typos. However, in this keyboard, if I press the bottom-left side of it, I can hear some metal sound or vibrations. Like if something is not correctly attached.

Please, T460s owners, check this these videos: 0in the last two seconds it seems better audible 1 and 2 (not sure you can hear the difference, I hope so) and let me know if that's something that happens also in your model, or if I should contact Lenovo. In the other hand, the p one is still good, it has just a different feeling. lentek air gold portable air purifierAlso it supports to use Fn+4 as a keybinding for suspend. holmes air purifier reviews hap600bHidden one, but I love it.3m air purifier fap04 I don't see all the differences that were mentioned in this thread. They mostly act the same (with some tuning, in case). The caps are the same, but the one of the s is deeper and stays more in between the keys.

Indeed they're different compared to the TP Bluetooth keyboard, but you can enjoy working with them all. I've not used them at all, but the one in the s seems softer to "click". But I really can't give a real review here since I've only driven my devices using the nipple. My T460p unfortunately has an Innolux display, which as already mentioned multiple times, is note exactly the best when it comes to colors quality. By correcting it with the ICC profile, provided by notebookcheck ifewt does improve, but still I feel that things are shown differently. For the s, instead, I chose the touch screen version, which means an LG LP140WF5-SPB3. Colors aren't perfect here as well, but I'd say much better than the Innolux. I still see that In the main gallery, I've put some display comparison pictures, in various conditions (indoor and outdoor) and using 50% or 100% backlight levels. In terms of luminosity I think they almost match. The touch-screen version could be a little less bright, but it's not really noticeable.

Only available in the s, and well... I wanted it as I need that also for work, but... Well, I didn't expect that, but once you have your laptop in front at you and you can quickly tap and drag things around, you really enjoy that. The one here seems really precise and works with multi-touch and gestures. As a funny note, after few minutes I was playing with it, I moved back to the p and I found myself touching its screen... It seems that is something definitely addicting. I'm far from an audio-maniac, but as far I've used them, they look ok. The s ones are probably a little better, but I can safely say they're mostly equivalent. Although I did some big builds in the p machine, the fans are always quite quiet (really, you hear them, but not loudly at all). In idle the s is of course quieter, but when it's about to do some heavy tasks, it looks like that the fan spins more than on the quad-core notebook (maybe it's just because the smaller holes creates a kind of whistle effect).

When not using all the cores, the p generally stays around 35-45 °C (I'm talking about the cores / ACPI temps; so the external one is way less). When doing the hard stuff, it reaches up to 80 °C. But the external case is never really hot. It can become warm in some areas, but in general is not annoying. So, IMHO the concerns about the fact that this could become too hot, aren't really relevant. Unless you don't pass the whole day compiling stuff or doing synthetic benchmarks. Here you can see some stats while compiling the Linux kernel with T460p. As for the s, it has a normal core temp which is still not much different from the ones mentioned above (~35 °C), when compiling it reaches maximum 70 °C (66 °C actually, it seems that there's some threshold before throttling as I always got that max value). Here's a screenshot with some thermal and CPU usage while compiling the Linux kernel with T460s. I've not done big tests with both... I already posted some results for the p here.

With this one, while doing real work I can get about ~4/5hrs of battery life. I've not tested the s properly yes, but I believe that it will be somewhat similar. I'm a developer, I mostly work with C++ and C... And thus I compile stuff. Not too big, but neither so small... In this field, the p, as expected, can't be beaten. And at the end the benchmark results for these CPUs quite respect my poorly done tests. In fact, Ubuntu linux kernel compilation (this includes looots of modules and packaging): So the quad-core machine took less than the half time to perform such task. Quite expected, but still, I've numbers now. Also to compile the project I work on, starting from a clean build the p takes 5:15 minutes, the s, 10:28. Then, indeed having a quad-core machine helps a lot when doing such tasks... Of course, I won't spend all my day compiling, so saving 2 or 3 minutes to compile doesn't change the life, but still... I only use linux systems in both, and Ubuntu Xenial (16.04) played well in the two.

There are some fixes to land yet, especially when using a dock, but nothing to be worried about, so far. The only missing feature, is the support for the fingerprint reader (completely new hardware, compared to the old ones). I started some reverse engineering on that, so if anyone wants to join...There's really not a verdict. I'm really torn about which my main next laptop would be. In terms of portability, beauty, built quality, input systems, display quality, feeling... The T460s has no rival here.There's this thing that the T460p is so powerful, that it's hard to ignore the half compilation time, when I would spend most of my day keeping it docked.Well, I still don't know, but I'm sure that my first choice was a good one for a desktop-replacement machine, but I could still consider to keep the s as my mobile friend... It's too hard to give it away now that I've it in my hands :-P PS: I know I didn't take the pics in the best light conditions, if you want something more/better, just ask.