By contrast with general harddisk, which is faster in read/write speed?
Its price is terrible high, isn't it?
I can buy a laptop with $500!

As I know, no trade-in or simimar programs by far.
The price of new T43 decreases to two third of that in two years.
A 1.5-2 years old t43 might be evaluated about half of its present price.

:D My t43 is as old as yours. I suggest you choose item 2. In my opinion, your t43 suffice for almost all kind of application(say, most games, development, playing videos, etc.). You can get a desktop PC for a supplement, if need more powerful computation. Generally, a computer's life cycle is 3 yea...

In fact, the noise problem of T43 is due to defect of Intel 915 chipset, at least in part. Intel 915 is a power-consuming product, so IBM have to equip T43 a powerful high speed fan to avoid overheating problem, the side product is the bored noise. At least t43 has no serious overheating problem tha...

Please contact IBM custom hotline first of all. After try all possilbe means, we have no choice but to reinstall the whole os. Before do so, suggest you back it up by Norton Ghost(8.0 or higher) for future use. My way to reinstall os is format system partition(usually C:) and start a new setup, then...

After uninstall the video driver totally, surely you still have video( though your display is not very good). As soon as reinstall the video driver, it come to the state just like before. strongly suggest rebooting after remove driver.

I encountered a similar problem about 6 months ago: screen suddenly turn off(especially after several minutes of idle time), however,power is still in normal state, but cannot restore from it whatever I do, such as, hit key, click mouse. It occurs from time to time. About one month ago, I installed ...

and you take least risk. I did so.