Weighing in a bit late here, with a few random thoughts * my collection of T42s started one day when I had bad case of the flu, high fever, and was in bed watching a movie on only true fair-weather friend, a used R40 I had picked up which, to that point, had never let me down. In the middle of the f...

Have posted about the T42 in other sections. Aware that that the last post here was some considerable time ago. so this is really an historical archive in case there any other "hobbyists" that want to keep the machine working til 2020 or so. It is a truly great machine, will do everything but 1080p,...

Why run a new OS on an old machine? Let's make some assumptions. Say you are a semi-retired accountant that collects and fixes computers as a hobby. Say you have 16 or 17 working machines, including desktops and laptops, macs and pcs, but no mobile devices. Some very new, some with dual core, some w...

I have 7 X T42s networked (crazy retirement hobby) and I am NOT having problems with flash video or 720 playback. All machines are upgraded to max ram, dvd burner, latest drivers from DRIVERPACK, and oh yeah before I forget all T42s tend to liquify their thermal paste over time, and you start to see...

My hobby in retirement is running a home network of 14 machines. This is a combination of desktops (eg, Dell Vostro, Dell SX620) and laptops. Laptops include Lenovo G550, Toshiba Sat running Win7 64 bit, Acer Aspire 5535 (UGH!), a few Macs, a T61, and 6 (count em, six) T42s. I love the T42s. In my a...

Background: Retired several years, laptops have mysteriously become my "hobby" I have 14 of them all purchased used, networked only via Dropbox. 13 are PCs, of the 13, 11 are XP based, 2 are Win7. 5 of the laptops are T42s. I love T42s. I believe they are the original "tablet" in terms of size and ...