SOLD: Nice UXGA FlexView T61 frankenpad

[Bibin]

Over the last holiday I got a little fed up with my X61 so I got a T60p and a T61 motherboard to make a frankenpad. Well, I did, and while I really enjoy it I do miss the X series and will probably go back to the X220 at some point.

The UXGA LCD has a small quirk - when you are adjusting the screen, sometimes a few horizontal lines near the bottom of the screen act screwy. It's never happened during use, only during torquing. There is a small dark spot near the bottom-right of the screen, but it's otherwise in great shape with no yellowing of the panel. I have another UXGA LCD where the backlight has some dark spots, but the LCD itself is perfect, and I'd be willing to include that panel too.

Anyway, here's the deal:

-T60p chassis
-Intel T9300 2.5GHz 6MB Cache Core 2 Duo (45nm Penryn)
-T61 motherboard with Nvidia Quadro NVS 140m - this has been working great, it's done plenty of 3D applications without any problems.
-4GB DDR2 RAM (2 x 2GB)
-No drive installed
-Middleton BIOS installed for SATA 2
-Intel 6205 Wi-Fi card
-Extended 9-cell battery with decent capacity ~87% of original
-Great keyboard, not too much shine on the keys
-Original OEM charger included
-Comes with a fresh install of Debian linux or a wiped disk.

I'm looking for $250. If you have an X220, I am interested in a trade as well. I am open to international shipping but it will of course cost more and take longer. I will not lie to customs about the contents to make it cheaper as I have been asked to do numerous times.

I will take photographs shortly of the machine. I wrote this post on it, and it's seen plenty of use in the last month or so as a primary machine.

[Bibin]

I guess times are really changing! Is there no longer a market for these?

[lophiomys]

I'd guess there is a finance crisis still raging and affecting many.
If my budget would allow it, I'd build an even bigger stock.

[Bibin]

I'd guess there is a finance crisis still raging and affecting many.
If my budget would allow it, I'd build an even bigger stock.

If you'd be interested, I can knock the price down a peg by hanging onto the SSD and shipping it without a drive. It's looking like I may need to hang onto the SSD anyhow, so I'll update the post with the option.

[lophiomys]

Sorry no, it was not my intention to beat down the price.

[RealBlackStuff]

The main lack of interest is probably due to the motherboard having an nVidia GPU.
And an obnoxious LCD is not much help either.
Give folks the mobo P/N (42W7649 or 43Y9045 native Merom, 42W7873 or 44C3924 native Penryn) and the production-date that is engraved on the GPU (looks like e.g. 0735, which is Year 2007, Week 35).
And with the S/N from the BIOS you can also find the production-date of that T61 laptop by looking up the warranty here:
http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/warrant ... e=Warranty
(type in the S/N without the dash (same as found in BIOS))