Britain is the perfect example of f*cked up gun control. I mean, I'd rather do it the US way with everyone owning a gun, and most of them knowing how to use it. Than no one aside from the criminals having them, who still think the spray and pray manoeuvre is "da sh!t". Just remember that gang member...

I assume one was for a shotgun wedding? Hehe, no. I'm pretty sure he wanted to kill me. Which is weird because his wife (Sara's mother) thinks the world of me... Can't please 'em all, I suppose. Also, the last one was the syrian mafia. They're pretty nice after that whole, "I'm going to torture you...

Jesus, some of those were almost as bad as the 386 from my school. It been running 24/7 since it was brand new. They forgot about it when they built the server rooms in the basement, and a few months ago some electrician didn't understand why and empty room was using so much power and knocked down t...

Hehe, my gf did something similar when she failed level 4 math (complete mindf*ck btw) in high school. Long story short she told her parents that she was knocked up, was getting married, and as a afterthought mentioned that she and the father (me) were moving to the UK. And yes, in case you're wonde...

7:40 pm and nobody has shown up. Looks like the intercom of doom has struck again... Nobody seems to be capable of operating that bloody thing.

Uhm, call lenovo and tell them to fix it? As for the mechanics. It should pop out and and work like any other thinkpad even without the card. I have a similar issue, the express card doesn't pop out when I press the lever. It doesn't "lock" either, so its stuck in the eject position. Insanely annoyi...

Radioguy wrote:It makes perfect sense if people didn't turn out to vote for him.

In that case, they have nobody to blame but themselves.

From one (transplanted) European to another: I don't believe that you understand the nature of American politics too well. One of Romney's biggest problems was that he was not perceived as being conservative enough ... That was taken out of context, mate. As I later explained the problem lies with ...

Obama was the right choice, in the sense that it was the better choice. I was not crazy about him, but was even less crazy about the other guy. You cant be crazy about a politician. You vote on the candidate that you dislike the least... And the one who's least likely to screw you over. Which I why...

The backlight went out in my X201 yesterday around 10pm, opened a warranty claim an hour later. At 10am today, Lenovo calls me to inform me that an on-site repair has been scheduled for tomorrow afternoon and asks when its a good time for the technician to arrive. It took Acer three weeks to even ch...

As I wrote on facebook. Faith in the American people, restored.

Well, I foundout that my Z61t has only a x86(32 bit) t2400 @ 1.83GHZ! I found that the top of the CPU is either a T7200 or T7400 which are x64(64 bit). If I can swap out to the higher class CPU; I can put in a seond 2GB memory stick and get 4GB! Has anyone swapped out the CPUs? Is it easy or not? I...

killer wrote:Nevertheless, I have my fingers crossed that nobody is daft enough to elect a US President with a name that rhymes with twit.

Bloody hilarious, mate! You summed it up quite wall.

PS: Thank god for water proof keyboards. Spewed a mouthful of coke on my toughbook ...

My sister, seeing the wisdom in replacing my aging T42, decided to do the same. She found a cheap ($550USD) Packard bell with quad core AMD A6, 8GB ram and HD7670 at the local electronics store. Anyway, we got in the car to look at it, and behold, the screen was of epic proportions. 15.6 inches and ...

I have the chance to buy a working G40 for around 100 bucks. Battery does still take a charge, although how much is unclear, and the machine works well overall. Pentium 4 2.4ghz, 768mb ram, 120gb hdd (the drive being brand new and worth over half the asking price in itself.) In my limited experience...

Not an awesome deal, but still pretty good.

X201, i5 520m, 4gb ram, 160gb, ultranav, wwan ready, webcam with warranty until april 2014. 526 USD shipped.

RealBlackStuff wrote:You can buy cheap Dummy cards to fill the gap!

Or just go with USB cards...

As for how dead PCMCIA is, as a doornail. Hell, even express card has one foot in the grave...

I have a 1.08GB drive (Hitachi DK223A-11) and I should have a 60mb somewhere. Although the latter doest quite work, the moment you cut power, it erases everything... It was running in a 286 Compaq until recently. It still seems solid though. Passes OSX drive test. PS: May I suggest a PATA to CF adap...

Asus X72JR: Bought it for $140USD non working and with locked bios. Replaced harddrive and removed cmos battery. Used it for a year and sold it for $425USD. Thinkpad T42: Given to me non working when it was two weeks old. Replaced ram, still works to this day. 1982 Mercedes 190d: Bought it for a bot...

I have an R400 as my shop computer and that thing is bullet proof. My last shop computer was my 390X and it lasted me 13 years (6 years of those being shop use). I think the R400 will easily give me that and maybe more. All of the PCs that are 3-4 years old like that will have original batteries th...

pianowizard wrote:Go for the 1440x900 screen of the X200s and X201s.

Let me guess, its not plug an play, is it? I need to swap out the entire assembly, correct? Why cant anything about these darn things be simple? Swapped to a 1080p screen in my Zepto in under 20 minutes minutes...

Radioguy wrote:Unfortunately, any store owner who felt the same would probably receive a life sentence.

You'd be surprised how lenient the legal system is for people who shoot other people in the ar$e with a .22.

I finally gave up on 4:3 Thinkpads, too much hassle and I'm not getting much performance for my money. Bought an X200 than I sold to a mate a day later. It might show up here since its getting a x201 motherboard. Currently awaiting delivery of an X201 (3680-MG1) from the UK. Gonna bump it up to 8GB ...

Not very fond of this guy, but he does make a good point occasionally. Although 1600p isn't feasible on the low end market, they should go for 1080p at least.

EDIT 01-11-12: Sold it to a friend. Going with something else instead. Looking into a T400/R400 atm Picked up my X200 not to long ago, threw in an SSD and some spare ram I had (4GB). (The half witted moron of a Lenovo employee that decided to ship thing thing with 2gb ram and Vista should be shot.) ...

Wow, I didn't even know these existed. I knew the specs said the T60 had WWAN, but I've never actually come across one. Had you posted this last week I would've probably bought it.

PS: Didn't know there were any Hungarians here. Thought I was the only one.

My gf's father is currently in New York. Last I heard he was somewhere in Manhattan which is outside the evacuation zone. Might've changed since then, the evacuation zones grow almost hourly.

I'm not one for early adopters of anything so no. Maybe after Win 8 SP1 I'll have a good look at it. Win 7 does everything that I need for the moment. Early adopters? hehe. I still use Windows 3.1 and TOS, well I wouldn't say daily, but a few times every week. Dabble in BASIC whenever I really, rea...

New desktop and new startscreen: Love my new Windows. :D Thanks for reminding me exactly how awful my german is... :lol: I could barely understand half of it. I really need to stop neglecting my language skills. Not that it's necessarily "growing on me", but 8 doesn't look as bad as I previously th...

I am wanting to go two steps forward to an X220. Better battery life, IPS LED, and the ability to add an mSata and a platter storage will work fine for me. The X200 I have has an MVA or PVA screen (forget which one) but it seems to be getting a bit dim. The X200 has certainly served me well and I a...