The T440s reviewed had a Haswell i5 with 8 GB RAM and a 256GB SSD. As far as I can tell, the only substantive difference between the two machines is that mine has a 15.6" 1920x1080 display ...

A ThinkPad T440s upgraded to the nines would cost you a cool $2,049 (around £1,242, AU$2,332). That would get you a 2.1GHz Intel Core i7 4600U chip, 12GB of RAM and a 240GB SSD.