True point on British cars, should have thought about that and bunched it with the NorthStar motor, but it was the first one I thought of. Atleast for desktops, I run my unit 24/7 too, but I have a huge A/C sized cooler on mine that would probably still work even without any paste. 6 core 3.7GHz and...

To each his own - but too often I see people recommend "refreshing" the thermal paste before even bothering to inquire that it's related to the problem. That's just bad advice in my book. What you call "Wasteful" I call protecting my investment. I definitely agree with this. Thermal paste doesn't r...

TheForgottenKing wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 19, 2018 10:15 pm

What is that greenish bar above the F keys on the 760E? Looks like some sort of LCD.

It is. The 760 and 770 used LCDs as indicators. Many laptop from the early-mid 90s used this as a cheap and easy way as status indicators. IBM used this technique as far back as the L40SX laptop from 1991.

Its either SD or SDHC. Doesn't support SDXC.

SD-2GB limit, a few rare cards came out with 4.
SDHC-32GB limit
SDXC-2TB limit.

I don't know if the Z61t is SD or SDHC but my guess is probably SDHC.

ajkula66 wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 18, 2018 10:12 pm

My thoughts exactly. R60 was offered with a non-IPS 15" SXGA+ panel, which would have been much cheaper to swap in during the heyday of that generation.

There wouldn't be any day of the week I wouldn't easily pay the difference to get FlexView.

We've had the power to push the amount of pixels on an X1 Talbet for years now. It's not a bottleneck. Also, comparing an Android tablet to a Windows laptop/tablet is about the same as comparing a whiteboard to a smartboard. May look the same on the surface but two completely different tools. Now te...

Wow, that's the serious digging. Thanks RBS and an apology to MikalE.

EDIT: Wow, how did I totally not see the part about Option 2: get a new microwave?

Just buy an Atrix 4G dock. Use a USB-C to Mini HDMI and you have a keyboard, screen, and battery all integrated into a small formfactor. Sure it's not a Thinkpads but thinkpads are for getting work done, not dally wandering on an oversized cellphone. Whatever it takes to swap the RPi here with your ...

BigCatAndy wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 18, 2018 3:58 pm

OK, looks like switch to R61i would be the most pragmatic way to go. Or spend some more money an buy T500/T510 with 1920 x 1080.

Cheers,
A.

T500 came with a 16:10 display or 1920x1200.
T510/20/20 came with a 16:9 display or 1920x1080.

Is there a laptop to where the hinges can be tightened? I know they sometimes a hinge can separate from the body over time, which will give the laptop play and close the screen. But I haven't seen a laptop to where they've had a hinge design that you can tighten the screws/thread inside the hinge t...

PeterNC wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 18, 2018 11:46 am

After I replaced my W520's CMOS battery it now occasionally becomes very sluggish. I checked the temperature but that is not the issue. Any thoughts?

Are you sure that when you replaced the CMOS battery you didn't knock something when you opened it.
Also, are you PeterNC from VCFED?

What an idiot. He just copy and pasted with what he spammed an appliance forum. I sure everyone here is going to use a white adhesive on a black plastic case. Moron. You gotta tell the difference between selling hospital beds and legitamite information that happens to speak highly about a specific ...

1) I'm assuming you mean only cable, since inverters don't come in LED backlight machines.

2) There should be no reason it isn't a direct swap, same resolution, same formfactor, same machine.

Any particular reason a simple UK to US plug adapter won't work?

Screen size does, but screen type does not.

14.1" and 15" 4:3 units use the same boards.
14.1" 16:10 boards
15.4" 16:10 boards

Afaik the 380CE doesn't exist.

The 360CE does, but that's a completely different machine.
There is the 380E. And the only difference is the 380ED has a faster processor and a bigger HDD.

Afaik the 380CE doesn't exist.

The 360CE does, but that's a completely different machine.
There is the 380E. And the only difference is the 380ED has a faster processor and a bigger HDD.

pm23885 wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 12, 2018 12:59 pm

Hello everyone, this is my first post. I run Debian and Arch on i3.

Welcome to the Forums.

Gonna check it out. Not sure what made you think though, that I have no respect in the engineering aspects of these things. It's just incredible that they can achieve such weight savings in something like a disc drive, in the span of only a couple of years. Never said you didn't have respect, just ...

One off-topic observation: both docking stations have dvd drives in them, but the used one has a drive made in 2000, and the NOS dock has a drive made in 2004. The older DVD drive is a LOT heavier, there really is a huge difference. I wonder if the old drives were over-built, the technology just wa...

Besides Lenovo or IBMs USB keyboars, your only option would be to create your own.

TPFanatic wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 11, 2018 10:05 pm

That said if I were to collect one laptop... it'd be a T500 modded with QX9300 and a very bright LED WUXGA.

How bright? Toughbook bright.

Hehe...queue Corey Hart! I wear my sunglasses at night so I can so I can use my Toughbook!

I have a hard time believing a T601 would even be okay for simple and basic home user tasks these days such as Netflix. Again, I can't do 720p YouTube without frame skip on a T601. I'm pretty sure 1080p YouTube is a requirement for any *device* to be called modern - as any $100 Chinese tablets and ...

So when are you adding animatronics for annoying incessant passengers that think they know how to fly the plane better than you do :lol: . And its not like you don't have the skills for it too. I like the little touch of the real 727 manual. So how much of that manual is actual info and how much is ...

Skip the RCA to coax and this video should help you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMiMz1uGCXI Rather than buying them possibly and most likely non-working cable-concoctions, why not spend a few dollars more and get them a more modern flatscreen TV with HDMI? Or have them watch those program ON th...

So, I was thinking of buying a used P50 sooner or later... I probably should not, right? I don't really work with Top Secret stuff, but as an IT consultant, I do have access to confidential client data, and I should probably not risk it, right? Eh, confidental data you will likely have will likely ...

Ok, for Mini HDMI to DVI, depending on what you are doing there is something called HDCP which is an encrypted video signal. This is not supported through DVI and giving a DVI monitor an HDCP encrypted signal will make it do nothing. Now this shouldn't happen in theory but you never know. Now for Mi...

TPFanatic wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 11, 2018 10:50 am

I find the plastics especially brittle on T410s and other CS09 Thinkpads. Especially the palmrest on T520.

I found other CS09 machines to be fine. Never had an issue on any of my T420, T430s, or T520 units.

Maybe it was just a few batches of plastic that went wrong? Who knows.

380D can't take anything more than 8.4GB AFAIK without something like OnTrack Dynamic Disk Overlay.

mpcook wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 11, 2018 9:27 am

As a collectible, the ONE I would want (and I still would love to have) is a ThinkPad 500 which was my first ThinkPad. It was also, I believe, the first ThinkPad "notebook" meaning it was small.

There's one on eBay right now