Nice. For giggles I might try Windows 7 on the A31 again, even though XP flies on it, it'd be hilarious to get Bitlocker drive encryption running and Firefox ESR.

Is there any windows 7 driver for the a31p’s firegl 7800?

T2300 comes back as a core duo, so at least you have 2 cores. According to this thread the best cpu you can install is t2700 2.33ghz core duo. viewtopic.php?t=126344

I’ve never seen a G50. This is incredible. Thanks for sharing.

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in response to your query in the other thread, my t400 has no problems with the t9600, i also have the ati graphics so I use the 90w PSU, and I have a 9 cell that holds a charge. The t9600 is one of the more power hungry procs offered in the t400.

fyi the Sharp screens while fantastic in their own right, encounter incorrect brightness stepping when plugged into T500 and W500, because T500 had an LED-backlit option and it for some reason interprets the Sharps as LED-backlight displays. The Sharp screens work 100% perfect in the other 15.4" Thi...

wanted to share my anecdote that the particular 13N7046 Hydis HT14P12 i pulled out of a 2005 T43 did not have EDID and looked really dorky in a T60.

T60 is a nice laptop, nicer materials than the totally plastic R60. The thing with T60 is a lot of them had the SXGA from the get-go, so you likely wouldn't need to get a new one unless the one originally equipped is severely worn out. The SXGAs are indeed very cheap but I would encourage taking the...

vxkex was unreliable at tricking programs to install, when i got FF 124.0.2 installed it didn't work due to 7 missing some metro ui dlls. So im sticking with ESR for now, still viable for awhile. Also did the SSD upgrade since that hard drive was slow as hell. I could tolerate it back in XP days and...

My r500 came to me with a 667 fsb celeron 575, now it has a t9400.

Those 15” sxga feel dim to me (dimmer than XGA) and then there’s the annoying jaundice the lg panels develop. Curious if the r60e celery can take a fast pentium M? I have a 2.26 dothan doing me no good, could basically make an R50 that doesn’t desolder itself if the swap is possible.

It’s like any other typical reddit experience. Never had people wish me dead on this forum. r/thinkpad on the other hand….

https://i.postimg.cc/k6F9NsZd/IMG-4157a.jpg I could have taken this photo in 2007, or 2002, given that a T60 serves the same basic appearance as a 600. Essentially this build aims to reincarnate a snapshot of my childhood, the part with IBM ThinkPads, Windows XP, and the Internet. Thinkpad T60 type...

Aye, ive got a 800p T500 next to the XGA T60 and the t500 is a lot nicer, even in its ccfl variants the typical widescreens were nicer quality than the basic 4:3s. But there is an unreplicable charm to the 4:3 format which keeps bringing us back to the t60 and x61 and like. They’re obviously unusabl...

I was in a bind between upgrading my sister out of her 3 drive T430 into either a W540 or P70, i decided on P70 for the much better cooling system and I/O. We bought an optical drive HDD adapter, it is 9mm or Slim height, on aliexpress, we got one for P70 with the right rear mount and plastic cover....

I have some 15” T60 and a 14” T61 with a T60 board in it, all at present have the SXGA but i could swap in a respectively sized XGA. They all have some old laptop issues with nonworking fans and bad cmos batteries so it’d be awhile before they are “sellable”. There’s still lots of T60 and R60 on USA...

Integral seems a reasonable brand to me and the specs say it is an MLC drive which is in theory better for longevity. Could still be a dud but I’d encourage trying a fresh install before writing it off. Windows 10 installer off a usb iso can finish under 15 minutes, without network access it’ll be t...

What do you mean by ghosted? Cloned? Some programs do this better than others with respect to alignment. SSDs will perform worse if they’re not aligned.

whats the status of the battery (if present)?

I encountered a funny behavior with the modified x330 BIOS, it’s probably already well-known in the mod community but I didn’t know about it so I’ll share it here. Switching the BIOS to UEFI Only CSM off for Secure Boot breaks the USB brightness control and counteracts the BIOS-level disabling of th...

L14 sounds great to me. still used sodimms too. Only downside is LCD resolution tops at 1080p, there’s a good chance the motherboard is not provisioned to support higher resolutions as Lenovo has done in the past with other budget models.

I’ve used 64gb in t500.
I will try out 128gb and update this…

The ai is just a text regurgitator. At least it’s not a Nazi like their last chatbot . My opinion is the restrictions are to encourage general public people to replace their otherwise fully functional and adequate PCs. These are the people who use the PC as a TV or as a game console or something els...

A legit SATA to PCIE would be cool since cheap NVME drives are more populous and modern than mSATA. But the ebay image looks like it’s showing a B-key slot which is SATA, not PCIE. The aliexpress one appears to correctly be m-key for pcie.

You can get yourself an expresscard EGPU kit and try it out. I’ve had GDC Beast and found them unreliable and annoying, but when they work they’re alright, good for older games at FHD or lower resolution, it’s nowhere near as good as a desktop, although p1000 is weak enough it might not be a meaning...

There are two other ways to put more storage in an X230. 1. Get an ultrabase and ultrabay SATA storage adapter, usually 2.5” but ngff versions also exist now. Downside is you have to be docked. 2. Get an expresscard to m-key NVME adapter and a short 2242 or 2230 NVME SSD. Downside includes expressca...

You’re supposed to reported even $1 of income. There’s rules about tax owed on sales of personal items. https://www.irs.gov/businesses/what-to-do-with-form-1099-k#personal Personal items sold at a loss A loss on the sale of a personal item can't be deducted from your taxes. But you can zero out the ...

Welcome to the club. I toasted two adapters for my t530 qhd project. Still cheaper than an engineering degree.

there are mSATA lanes in the WWAN slot that opposes the wireless card. it's actually not m2 but the older form factor. It would look like one of these: https://www.google.com/search?q=msata+s ... d=sivnmbtz

Did you plug the adapter directly into the Dell’s lcd cable? The adapter’s input connector is reverse-direction or upside-down or pin-inverted from a normal LCD connector, plugging directly into any normal LCD connector will destroy the adapter and possibly the LCD and the laptop.