I have the intel 80 GB G2 SSD (recommended) in my x60s and it works great. But yeah, the sequential reads are capped - not that it matters that much.

Some numbers:
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Thanks The thing that turned me from activating passphrase in the beginning was that when you try to activate it you get a warning, "If passphrase is enabled, the 3 passwords are stored in secure format. Therefore, you will not be able to swap and use this hard disk with other PCs that do not suppor...

Thanks! The thing confusing me I guess was partially that the power-on password worked in that scenario, so when the supervisor password didn't work I assumed that I wasn't supposed to work. And the reason for why it didn't work is because the supervisor password has a weird limit of seven character...

So... I went into the BIOS, decided to put some BIOS-passwords on my x60s. Didn't want any password for the harddrive but I wanted to restrict what people could do with the BIOS. The supervisor-password description seemed nice. So I enabled that and entered a password. I also wanted a boot password ...

I really do believe that some of the palmrest heat solution can be attributed to the better power management features of Vista. In the battery manager utility on the X61s it allows you to set the wireless radio to 'max power savings' (and therefore lowest heat) whereas my X60s (xp) does not allow s...

Thanks all, been very helpfull.

Seems as it will be an X61s, just hope I can find it in stock somewhere.

Thanks again.

I've used my x60s for over a year now and I still really like it. So when my brother is about to get a new laptop the x60s is a natural place to start with. The student discout I got my x60s with now has the x61s, but whats the difference? Yes, theres the 64 bit CPU but the performance gain there is...

Just saw the 2.09 BIOS from lenovo. http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-63144 List of changes: # On a system with Windows Vista, the system may display the following error message during each power on, then cannot boot from the hard drive. 2100: Initi...

Also you can call lenovo and ask for the recovery cds and they might send them to you for free.

Say that you're thinking of replacing the harddrive or something.

Recovering data is expensive and although BestBuy doesn't exist in my country I really doubt there competence on this. And having a 9 gb limit really makes me wanna run away from them. But real data-recovery companies do cost alot. For the software approach I'd give SpinRite at look at http://www.gr...

What do you want to accomplish? "Real" Low-Level formatting isn't posssible on any harddrives (for over 20 years or something) aimed end users. Sure there are low-level formatting tools offered by many manufacturers but the only thing they do is write zeros all over the disk. And that has nothing to...

Hi

I've got ahold of some PC-4200 (533MHz) and thinking of mixing it with the PC2--5300/667MHz memory in my x60s.

I know that the faster memory will work as the new slower one but will BIOS allow this without changing the system-bus and reducing the CPU frequency?

Hm, if I remeber correctly mine is set to 1 GHz

Using USB optical drive will work and it's probably the easiest. That's how I fresh installed XP on a X60s. X60s supports network boot. I've yet to find a single guide for loading Windows XP through network boot. Check the last post on the first page and the rest. http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/sh...

I suggest waiting and see how it performs on the 24" dell.

You only benefit from virtualization when running multiple operating-systems at the same time with software like VMWare. If you don't you have no need for it at all.

Haven't heard the trackpoint noise but maybe I just haven't picked up on it. HardDrive noise will always be there. The harddrive (40 gb don't know what brand or model :oops:) that came in my x60s can be heared a few meters away in a quiet room. But in a class or something you'd struggle to hear it a...

Ah, thanks for the info.

The "802.11 "N" cards use 3 antenna leads; your machine has 2 WiFi antenna leads. Leave the center connector on the "N" card disconnected. What are the other two used by? I would for instance gladly exchange 802.11 A (never even seen it) for N if possible :) But I guess that would be too good to be...

Isn't that the always/often the case? That the LV and ULV versions are clocked lower. The reason for this is probably marketing - just to make up the quite steep price for them. Although the difference were quite big this time, that makes me believe that they have a big problem producing them. First...

Since it's only occuring with music I have a hard time thinking it would be an hardware issue. I'd test some other music software. Also you might try disabling one of the cores for the music-applikation. (or maybe it's just annoying you when listening to music? Then I wouldn't know). In any case the...

It's quite normal, have been up a few times on the forums before. I'd guess the chassi is robust enough not to flex the motherboard (doesn't seem to be the chassi bending at all). I often carry it with one hand though I tend to keep myself in the middle and I do avoid the squeeks, I also keep my fin...

Actually, it depends on the monitor. Thouse of you reporting very bad image quality with VGA most likely have a monitor with both DVI and VGA inputs. And that manufacturer most likely didn't care much at all about image-quality on the VGA port. Or, the VGA signal is the villain - however on a device...

Newegg sells USB Bluetooth adapters for as little as $10. Those are external. I for one will probably be willing to pay quite a bit for internal bluetooth. There are many reasons for it. An external one easily gets lost, and reduces the portability of the whole notebook if moved around often when u...

Does anyone know if you can upgrade the processors in the X60 or X60t core duo machines to a core2duo processor? On the T60 forum there are a few threads regarding such an upgrade, DIY. It would be very interesting to see if that is possible on the X series also. AFAIK the LV core duo is soldered t...

Might take a bit longer if they want to incorporate Santa Rosa too which is quite a big change to my knowledge.
(they weren't that fast with Core 2 Duo on the x60 either)

I have same problem. I called the support about it in september or something in order to get new pads (thats what I've read on this forum) but the guy said that that wasn't the problem (however you could try to adjust the new pads so that they would be leveled). To his knowledge the problem was not ...

The current x60's handle Vista just fine, of course that doesn't mean that there can't be any improvements but I don't think Vista has anything to do with an upgrade (wouldn't be surprised if they claimed otherwise, no company is immune to marketing-crap ).

I'm an resolution-freak and going to the x60s my main concern was the resolution. I do think it's the weakest link (the tablet version do offer a higher resolution - which I truly envy). Most applications do work quite well with 1024x768, however you won't be having multiple windows at the same time...