The 1920x1200 screen is why I got this used W500. But the brightness and contrast were equally bad among the the W500s I had to pick from. Looking online, the dim screen is a known deficiency of the design. This is sad since Photoshop editing is my intended task on this machine. What hacks exist to ...

Thinkpad noob here. As far as I can ascertain, "Turbo Memory" is Intel marketroid speak for a cache to R/W to/from the main drive. I'm wondering if I should uninstall the Intel Turbo Memory driver from my W500 (4063-3FU ). Side question: Does it even make sense to use this caching if you later end u...

Recent Lenovo Thinkpad convert here. My Toshiba L645D (AMD dual core @ 2.2GHz, 1067MHz DDR3 RAM) running Win7 x64 Home Prem died. So I got a used W500 4063-3FU (Intel Centrino 2 vPro Duo Core T9400 @ 2.53GHz) with 3GB RAM and Vista x32. Hi-res 1920x1200 screen, if too underlit to use in daytime. Win...

I too am running a 4GB PNY DDR3 module from Best Buy in my W500. It's listed as 1066/1333Mhz. Originally I used it in my Toshiba L645D, which did not play well with the two previous PNY modules before this one.