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#31 Post by BillMorrow » Fri Jun 04, 2004 10:31 am

i MIGHT have an archived set of recovery CD's for that T23..

might have a W2k version..

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#32 Post by mdbrown » Fri Jun 04, 2004 12:59 pm

Severian wrote:
mdbrown wrote:In the sub-$400 range the list gets much smaller. Depends on what you want to do with it too. I have a 770x that I put a 400Mhz PII in and added the DEVA card. Very capable for most common tasks. Plays DVDs very well and the screen is gorgeous. You might be able to land a 600x or 390x with a PIII in this range too.
The biggest thing I want that I can't do with my 560Z is playing mpeg4 encoded videos. I capture videos from my VCR and encode them myself. I would like to take some of theses with me at times to show people. That takes about a 500 or 600 MHz cpu do play smoothly. Since laptops are somewhat performance compromised as compared to desktop PCs, it might need a bit more. Other than that capability, my 560Z serves me pretty well. A larger screen than the 560Z's 800 by 600 would be a plus. I also want a bigger hard drive, but I can do that to the 560Z.

p.s. I am intentionally not cutting the quote at the top of this message at all. My previous quotes have not worked well and this is a test.
Then you would probably do well with a 390x or 600x, both of which you can get with a 500Mhz PIII, the 600x you can get with as fast as a 650Mhz PIII. They both have the crappy mediamagic video chip so gaming is out of the question but most everything else should work wonderfully on either machine.

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#33 Post by carbon_unit » Fri Jun 04, 2004 10:38 pm

morrow wrote:i MIGHT have an archived set of recovery CD's for that T23..

might have a W2k version..

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Re: NEW Advice about Used Thinkpads

#34 Post by pataslocas2001 » Fri May 02, 2014 2:54 am

Might send iso files? please

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#35 Post by ajkula66 » Fri May 02, 2014 4:08 am

pataslocas2001 wrote:Might send iso files? please
You do realize that this thread is a decade old?

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Re: NEW Advice about Used Thinkpads

#36 Post by Temetka » Sat May 03, 2014 2:07 pm

This has to be the oldest necro thread I have read on the TPF.

That being said, it was good read and some of the prices you guys paid seemed absurdly high. Until I looked at the post dates.
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Thinkpad T430s 8GB DDR3, 1600x900, 128GB + 250GB SSD's, etc.
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E6520, Precision M4400, D630, Latitude E6520
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IBM Thinkpad X61T, T61, T43, X41T, T60, T41P, T42, T410, X301

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Re: NEW Advice about Used Thinkpads

#37 Post by cadillacmike68 » Sat May 03, 2014 6:47 pm

It doubles my old record of 5 years. And I have the original recovery CDs somewhere.
760LD 9547 FUBARd
T21 2647; T22 2647 4@ 900MHz, 1@ 1GHz SXGA+; T23 2647 2@ 1.13GHz, 1@ 1.2GHz SXGA+, WiFi
T30 2366-88U 2GHz; 2366-83U 1.8G; 5@ 2366-LU0/66U; 2367-KU6 FUBARd
T61 8897, 2.4GHz SXGA+; 8898, 2.4GHz; 6463, 2.4 & 2.1GHz WSXGA+; 7658, 2.5GHz; T61p, 3 more T61s
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Re: NEW Advice about Used Thinkpads

#38 Post by Gripcon » Sun May 11, 2014 7:28 am

As do I. 2000 & XP, I think.
750Cs 9545-206 T23 2648-4RU T30 2366-81U R50p 1832-22U T61 8895-W8J

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