waiting on a response from the pre owned computer seller, but ill ask here

[Naer]

for a faster response

bought a preowned t410s from ebay. got here 2 days ago. so far im quite pleased. makes me regret purchasing the hp stream 11 which someone else uses now. 4 gb ram upgrade is incoming in the mail. only the ssd upgrade they made on the thinkpad is on the small side. it has a usb sata port and a card reader. I think it's an sd card reader, but I'm unsure what kind of sd card can go in there and how many gbs. what do you say?

 

[Naer]

14inch screen size is purrrfect. battery life is around 1 hour. Guess it's worn. Replacing it with a brand new battery(6 cell(t410s's can only fit 6 cell batteries)) would extend battery life to 3ish hours?

 

[dave_the_nerd]

It's probably just a normal SD card reader. The 410 is old enough that it might - might - not read the highest-capacity SD cards. Specs will be available on the Lenovo website if you want to know for sure.

The new battery should give you at least that long.

 

[mrblotto]

the T410 is a decent Lenovo laptop. I used one as my primary work laptop for 4 years. Replaced it with a T440p about a year ago.
A new battery should last you around 3'ish hours easily, as long as your not using the hell out of it all the while.

I think you have another thread about memory for it as well. I tried 2 X 4G PC10600 sticks in mine. BIOS showed 8G. It would POST, then go to the splash screen........and stay there forever lol. It came with 2 X 2G PC8500 sticks. I'm guessing the 10600 isn't compatible. I was eventually able to get 2 X 4G PC8500 sticks and it ran well the whole time.

Tips:
-Remove the keyboard (via 2 screws on the bottom IIRC) and either use compressed air or a vacuum to clean out the fan area. I recommend a vacuum, that way you're not blowing dust all over your area lol.

- These things are excellent for storing data, imaging, etc:

Ultrabay adapter

 

[Naer]

T410 and t410s are two different laptops?

 

[Naer]

Anyway to remedy a svchost.exe using CPU consistently issue? Maybe that's why it's preowned

 

[mrblotto]

T410 and t410s are two different laptops?

D'oh. Thought you had a T410, not the 410s. But still the ultrabay adapters are great to have

 

[Naer]

will clean intalling to win 10 trial remedy this cpu usage issue?

 

[JeffMD]

Seriously, where the heck did you read installing windows 10 would solve ANYTHING?

Use

tasklist /svc /fi “imagename eq svchost.exe

and give us a paste on what services are using svchost (When one of them is using high resources, that is).

 

[Stuka87]

It may be Windows updates. In which case Windows 10 would solv it, as updates are done differently. In Windows 7, there is currently a huge issue where it can take up to an hour just to CHECK for updates, while this is going it pegs out one CPU core, and runs under a svchost.exe process.