one guy from ibm came by my place and serviced my t43 regarding the fan-always-on issue, he was professional and replaced the fan, but the fan still stayed on after 5-10mins warm-up :( , finally he admitted this was "normal" for a t43, he found the hot-spot is the chip right under the touchpad, but ...

hello, Mac-man, what price is good for you?

what's the configration? so I can estimate a price for it. Thanks

nothing got better after the update , did anyone here ever try the on-site warranty to fix the fan problem? a ibm guy will come by my place and try to solve the fan issue, but I don't think this gonna work...

hello, guys, I was tortured enough by the noise fan of my t43, I decided to return it, now I am looking for a x32 instead, I am wondering if x32 a quiet laptop, and is there any "issue" with x32? Thanks for any input.

hello, guys, one ibm technical representative just give me a new-released firmware update, hope it helps to solve the fan issue

http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.ws ... MIGR-59120

hello folks, I found the area right underneath the touchpad of my t43 is much warmer than the areas under both palmrests after running it for a while, is the cpu under the left palmrest and HD under the right? I am wondering what is under the touchpad and generates so much heat? Thanks for any input.

thanks pphilipko, yes that's true, I was looking up the real-status of the active protection system, when it detected a shake it just shut off the HD for a while, so it interupted the data-stream which caused the sticking video.

Hello folks, I found an odd video problem that happened to my new t43, it can play a vedio smoothly when sitting rest on the desk, but when I shake or made it wobble, the same vedio it played getting stuck until I sat it back to normal, but the audio stream went fine, it wouldn't happen if the data ...

hey there folks, i just got my new t43 26694Du 1.85G, 512M, 40G, X300, Wi-Fi, I like it but the annoying fan noise, it can be heard constantly until it's completely shut off!! i found it's a common problem for many t43's, and seems unfixable, does anyone have a quiet t43, I am curious.

Hey folks, I'm a new one here, I'm looking for a T42 (2373FVU) deal, I appreciate any info about it.