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I've decided to sell my T40 and some other things and go the route of either a faster desktop or a newer laptop. It's a very nice machine, I've had it since June of this year and treated it very well. It has excellent condition plastics and screen, with no cracks, scratches, chips, etc. Nothing like that. In fact the only "problem" it has (that I am aware of, and I use this machine daily so I'm aware of pretty much everything) is a sticker on the top center. It's one of those security stickers, where if it gets lost or whatever you just call a number and people will go out hunting for it, or something like that. I know it can be re-registered, but I've never really bothered with it. In my opinion it makes a good theft deterrent, but if you don't like it you can just peel it off and clean the glue residue. The battery lasts between 1.5 and 2 hours, depending on how stingy I am, though no real garuentees there, because as I've seen quite a bit, stingy for one user is different than for another user, so your mileage may vary, but with screen brightness all the way up, wifi on, some HDD access, and a stepping processor, you'll get at lest one hour.

It originally had a Banias 1.3GHz processor, but I upgraded that to a 1.7GHz Dothan about two months ago, and boy, it makes this laptop *fly*. It runs XPpro without the slightest bit of lag, which is pretty great. I do quite a bit of work in Office 2007, including 20+MB presentations and excel spreadsheets with a thousand or so items, and I've had no problems whatsoever. I've got a short fan on it, and even in the hot North Carolina summers I've not had it go over 70C, ever. It's got 1gb RAM (I was planning on upgrading it eventually, but never got around to it.) over two 512MB IBM sticks, I've run RAM tests and the fully diagnostic bootup and both sticks pass completely. The hard drive is a 60gb hitachi, and it's very fast, never had a problem with it relating to noise or bad blocks. The optical drive is a standard ultrabay slim DVD-ROM, also without problem. The GPU is the Radeon 7500 with 32MB VRAM, driving the standard XGA screen. The screen itself has no dead pixels, or any stuck ones, it's clear and crisp, no white spots at all. The hinges are nice and tight, the screen can be within a few inches of being totally flat or nearly closed, and not fall even the slightest bit. The thinklight is nice and bright, the screen latch works just as it should. It does not have the USB2 to 1.1 problem that some T40s have. Just this morning I was doing speed tests with one of my external hard drives and I got 36MB/s.

For networking it has the intel 10/100 ethernet, the v92 modem (no BT), and the Thinkpad Athers a/b/g wifi, which I've heard is considerably better than the intel cards these also shipped with. Both ethernet and wireless work fine, I use them all the time. The keyboard/palmwrest area is very nice, all the keys are present and working as they should, there is a little bit of shine on the space bar and center home row keys, but all keyboards I've ever seen have that. The thinknub/trackpoint/whatever works fine, and it has the standard cap on it, power/volume/access IBM buttons all work too. The trackpad/buttons also works fine, but I keep it turned off most of the time due to being a thinknub person. The left trackpad button has a bit of shine on it, not much though. The palm wrests still have their texture, no shine at all. There is a little bit of dust in and around the keys, but that's nothing that a quick attack with a can of air couldn't fix, just make sure you remove the keyboard first to keep from blowing stuff down into the system. Before packing it up and shipping it off, I'll fully wipe the hard drive, so you can install your own system. It has an XPp license on the bottom, which worked last time I installed it. I will include a CD containing all the drivers as well, because I know how much of a pain it can be to get them all on there. All told you'll get the T40, battery, power supply w/ AC cable, and drivers CD. Nothing else.

Here's the full specs:

IBM T40 2373-14U
1.7GHz Dothan w/ 2mb cache, short fan
1GB RAM, 2x 512MB sticks
Radeon 7500/32MB, XGA screen
60GB HDD
DVD-ROM
Intel 10/100 ethernet
ThinkPad Atheros a/b/g WiFi
v92 modem of some sort
1-2hour battery, depending on usage
Original IBM powersupply, the one that says "IBM" on it, not the "ThinkPad" one

Here's some pictures, they're a bit old, but this thing hasn't changed much since I took them, except I cleaned it up and removed the Intel Inside and "made for windows" stickers. I hate those things.

I'd like to get around $400 +/-$20 for this machine, plus $20 for a proper laptop box from UPS and shipping. (more or less condsidering your location)

Feel free to PM me or send an email to john8520@gmail.com, I'll respond faster to email though, as I check it more often than the forums.

John Miller
Washington, NC
27889-5004

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how about power consumtion? Centrino was the best technology offered by Intel which takes low power. Does this laptop heats up at some extent comapare to Centrino ?

If no heating issues then this deal is awesome ....
What is the original purchase date of this laptop? How old is it?
This model has docking station support? Hopefuly yes as it's T series which comes under business class...

In pictures you uploaded condition looks top most no doubt..