I am thinking about buying an X60 after several happy years of R50e useage and I noticed when shopping around that some of the models I have seen on sale seem to indicate varying amounts of ram (presumably from the main memory) for video useage. I looked at this page on the thinkwiki http://www.thin...

I just bought a combined USB hub/Audio device which has a a handy switch for my headphones/speakers. Is there any way I can use the volume buttons (vol up, vol down and mute) on my TP, its an R50e running XP sp1, to control the USB audio device the same way I can with the TPs built in headphone out?...

For a few months now I have been experiencing slightly wierd connection problems on my R50e. It would seem when first starting up the machine of after waking it from sleep mode over night some applications will not get internet access for anywhere between a couple of minutes and a couple of hours th...

I am trying to get the keyboard off of my R50e to upgrade the ram, I have removed the keyboard once before to see if I had a wifi capable unit or not. Unfortunately now I am having considerable difficulty in removing it. I carefully followed all the instructions here: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/suppo...

Well, I too the plunge and threw the 100 gb in and managed to install it with more or less no problems. I dont know if it makes much difference but I put in a 10GB partiton for apps and os and the remainder for data and junk.

if you click on the link which says

Update your drivers and software automatically

it should download everything you need using the thinkvantage software installer. I have and R50e and after installation the drivers are about 200 mb in total.

I have an R50e I am trying to upgrade and I am looking to install a rather reasonably priced (150 dollars ish) Toshiba MK1032 100gb 2.5 inch drive. I dont know of any reason this would be a problem but I just thought I would check. Is the TP going to recognise such a large HDD without any problem? T...

Thanks very much for the info. Any idea on which Multiburners ARE compatble with the R50e? I am assuming anything which is ompatible wth the R50/51/52?

Little further info, As far as I can tell from this page

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-53136

I may not be able to upgrade to a multiburner with an R50e?

Anyone able to confirm?

I am looking to replace my DVDrom/CDRW drive with a DVD writer (multiburner?) in the near future but I am having alittle trouble working out which drives are compatible with my unit. Looking around ebay and a couple of other places many drives are compatible with the R50/r51 but dont mention the r50...

I have a Japanese R50e with a Japanese keyboard which is slightly fustrating as the ascii sets are different so some of the character are in different places. A friend very kindly offered to donate an American T21 Keyboard but I dont know if it would be compatible or not. Anyone have any ideas? Fail...

I have an r50e which I adore and I am thinking about the possibility of putting a DVDR/CDRW drive in to replace my DVD/CDRW. I dont seem to have found a source for these, if they even exist

Could anyone point me in the right direction or give me an idea of price?

Thanks alot!

Well that the thing, I cant even get as far as installing the drivers for the LAN connection so i havent connected to the internet. I havent used any USB devices or any media other than the backup which has the drivers on it and the Windows CD. I suppose that one of those may be infected. I will try...

I recently started getting a few unfriendly looking error messages on my install of windows XP and decided to reformat. I have tried doing this on two different hard disks both seem to have the same problem. The reformat goes fine, the install goes fine but once windows starts up it seems to run ver...

Thanks again for all the help! I must admit i didnt know about the English keyboard thing but it doesnt really surprise me. The Japanese are big time into customizing things. A friend of mine here has an old russian camera called a LOMO which he covered with snakeskin (real) from some old handbag, i...

A user in a different forum mentioned that some Japanese users got to great lengths to import a US keyboard to replace their local one. I have also seen a couple of people mention kind of sticker kits to give your TP a wood or metal veneer or something similar. I was thinking about getting some fun ...

Thanks very much for the help and advice, especially made in japan. I kind of independantly arrived at solution number 4 as I had a spare 30 gb 2.5 inch drive lurking around from a dead mp3 player. It went much like this, 1 - install windows on second HD 2 - install LAN driver via CD 3 - get really ...

I have an R50e and I am about to install English XP over Japanese XP. couple of questions first. My Thinkpad has what I assume to be a sn for windows on a little sticker on the bottom but I have a product key for windows XP anyway, any reason I should use one or the other? Secondly, I want to have a...

Hiya, This is my first post so please be gentle:) I live in Japan and am in the market for a thinkpad. I have found one which looks to have the spec I am after, its called a Thinkpad R50e. I didnt think to write down the model number. Its basically perfect apart from having a Japanese OS. I have a c...