Well I currently own 5. 1st: t42 with 15" flexview, 98% new, pretty much just opened box made sure it works and put it in storage. That is my first collection. 2nd: this t60 with 14" I am typing on. Use it daily and bring it to work so I don't have to touch Macbooks. 3rd: a T42 bough off ebay. Tried...

thank you. i actually like lenovo as a company and i think they do good work. the reason why i want the old logo is that i think they give the laptop a more personality instead of the thinkpad logo which i think is a little cramped together. i never liked the windows or rest of the stickers. my t60 ...

i tried to get those ati and intel label off my palm rest this morning, and accidentally scuff the palm rest. it now looks like irritating like a pimple.

i see that ibm sells replacement for 115 bucks. does this come with the old school ibm logo or the new thinkpad logo?

meh,
when i shop memories i care about brand alot. for mission critical stuff i insist on crucial ram with crucial chips. (they start to have samsung chips on their rams) and i usually run a round of memtest on it to rule out doa. but they been good to me

How is firewire any more of a security risk than USB, RS232, parallel ports, etc.? I too, am curious about the answer to this question and the reason for the extra concern. I usually just disable them if i don't use 'em anyway. firewire have a built in backdoor and if you the software to take advan...

lol yea that will be funny
the only thing i use on my thinkpad lcd is water and lens paper.
on the hard plastics i use some isopropyl alcohol to keep it clean and then wipe it with tissue with warm water

why do you possibly want firewire on your thinkpad? it is the biggest security risk there is

update your windows, apply sp1
if not, downgrade to xp

i am really not trying to be an [censored] but these are common knowledge. and if you really want to run win2k i think you will be in a better shoe if you use virtual pc 2007 and install win2k as a virtual os. Why in the Multiverse would I want to bog my poor laptop down like that? It works just fi...

i am really not trying to be an [censored] but these are common knowledge.
and if you really want to run win2k i think you will be in a better shoe if you use virtual pc 2007 and install win2k as a virtual os.

if i recall correctly, the latest ati driver fixed something with acrobat reader, if that is what you doing

vista isn't going away. because it give microsft less grief from the drm point of point. less law suits from hollywood studios.

windows server 2008 is pretty big thing, and it works with vista

okok i have alot to say: Piano, I worked in a corporate job for a while for 3 month i used 2 business computers from dell. they are exactly the same as their consumer level computers. as far as hp goes, i only seen them. from a distance i thought it look ridiculously like a thinkpad. aj: i know the ...

ajkula66: you mentioned that he same supply still makes IPS, then why did the official Lenovo blog released a while back said that they were discontinuing it due to unreliable supplier? they targets are different amount manufacturers. dell hp and gateway and apple are targeting consumers, and joe ev...

It would seem official: http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/21/lenovo-joins-the-all-widescreen-club-axes-the-4-3-thinkpad-t61/ It's not a formal move and there's no announcement, but it's clearly a growing trend i guess you missed that part. if you guys can recall lenovo never even offered a standard w...

nvidias are usually faster in terms of performance.
and regarding drivers, well, i am a little conservative, i believe that stuff like drivers should be done directly in c++ instead of on top of another framwork.

consider that the tp use a rubber coating, can you go to homedepot and get some black rubber coating of the sort?

never liked ati. always been a nvidia fan. but i really hate the fact that ati drivers requires .net

P.S. -- o1001010 is completely incorrect in all his points. The 9600 in the T42 is NOT faster than the FireGL T2 in the T42p. Do some research and you will find that they are the EXACT SAME SILICON; the difference is in the PCI product ID and the drivers. You can mod Radeon drivers to run on the T2...

Windows XP Tablet Edition is not available for the x64 architecture. Furthermore, Vista's tablet functionality is leaps and bounds better than Windows 2005 Tablet Edition (aka XP SP2). As someone who has been using a tablet pc since 2004, my advice is to stick with Vista. Downgrading from Vista to ...

if i was in your shoe, backup all files and reinstall. the time you will be wasted trying to get the thing up and running will probably exceed the 2.5 hours needed to have a fresh install. and if you will be doing that you might as well downgrade to xp 64. i am using vista 64 enterprise now and i fa...

i have no idea if this will work or not but i heard about it.

in front of your pc, install a larger fan than the one behind. that way the atx tower is slightly pressured, it will be a little hard to build up dust.

no, the area is designed to fit exactly with a hard drive. there is no room for anything else.

well, that is the reason why every hard drive that i purchase gets a format and every laptop i buy gets a full drive zero.

and i include usb drive with formatting

Don't be misled by those unethical eBay sellers such as Thinkpadworld . "Factory sealed" is NOT new. Instead, they are used laptops, many of which are quite beat up. They put the used laptop in a box and sealed the package in a factory -- that's all. The one I want to get comes from ibmfactoryoutle...

this is what i read, copied from wikipedia. Work on the 802.11n standard dates back to 2004. The draft is expected to be finalized in November 2008 with publication in July 2009,[1] but major manufacturers are now releasing 'pre-N', 'draft n' or 'MIMO-based' products based on early specs. These vend...

for your purpose you can stick with a t42. if i am not mistaken the t42 with 9600 radeon is actually faster than the 128 firegl. but vista won't run aero because it is 64mb. there are still new t42 on ebay if you really want a t42. but for my purpose, i will go with a t61 standard screen. nvidia alw...

bypassing all the replies, for my t42 i bough seagate .3 from newegg. 80 gb.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822148128

for my t60 i bought a fujitsu 120 hd, i dislike samsung products as it feels like they have an expiration date built in.

when your lid closes its a windows default to put the laptop into sleep mode therefore cutting power to any acessory. you need to adjust windows behavior (if i remember correctly display properties, screensaver, power; or control panel, power)

ok in my experience: i am not a hardcore wireless guy at all, because most of the stuff i do is security related so i almost always use a wired connection. but when it comes to wireless i do believe that atheros chips are better, better supported for linux, etc. i do understand that N is not officia...