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For sale we have a one of a kind custom built X41. The reason it is a custom machine is that is has a 120GB 5400rpm ZIF hard drive. The largest conventional drive available for the X41 is 60GB, 4200rpm. The battery is new and has one (1) cycle because I charged it to test it. Condition is very good with minor exterior scratches. There are a couple of scratches on the memory door, normal wear on the keyboard, and all letters are clear/visible. The LCD is bright and it has one small pressure mark at the extreme right edge of the LCD only visible on a white background. There are a few pencil point sized dust spots on the very bottom extreme edge of the LCD, and no dead pixels that I can see. It comes with a brand new dock, and I'll include a CDROM drive in the dock. Occasionally the CDROM drive has a problem reading DVD's, so you may want to consider replacing it with a combo CDRW/DVD drive. I'm just including it to get you started. I flashed it to the latest BIOS and Windows XP is freshly loaded with the recovery partition intact. There is a 2010 error on boot which is normal for this machine with a non-IBM approved hard drive in it. It is bypassed without keyboard intervention by a BIOS option and does not effect the operation of the drive or the machine.

Original Specs; Upgrades in bold.

Product: ThinkPad X41 2525-3CU [change]

Original description: P M 758(1.5GHz)LV
512MB RAM
40GB 4200rpm HDD >>Now 120GB 5400rpm Samsung ZIF Drive
12.1in 1024x768 LCD
Intel 900
Intel 802.11bg wireless(MPCI)
Modem(CDC)
1Gb Ethernet(LOM)
Secure Chip
8 cell Li-Ion batt >>Now new 6 Cell
WinXP Pro (COA intact, recovery partition intact)

$375 plus shipping to anywhere in the world. Add 3% if paying by Paypal.

Note: This machine was built by forum members using donated time and parts. Proceeds from the sale will be used to fund future projects of a similar nature.

Note2: In the pics below, Pendrive Linux was used for testing purposes. XP Pro is currently loaded on this machine. It is very fast ...

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Bump - Price drop - $425 plus shipping to anywhere in the world. Add 3% if paying by Paypal

Bump - Price drop - $400 plus shipping to anywhere in the world. Add 3% if paying by Paypal

Bump - Price drop - $375 plus shipping to anywhere in the world. Add 3% if paying by Paypal.

Note: The drive alone is worth well over $200, because it can't be found for less presently. If I had $375 this machine would not be leaving this house ... did I mention that this hard drive is silent?

so tempting.

Harryc wrote:There is a 2010 error on boot which is normal for this machine with a non-IBM approved hard drive in it.

Does it generate a "beep" just like the T43?

Harryc wrote:It is bypassed without keyboard intervention by a BIOS option and does not effect the operation of the drive or the machine.

Harry, did you confirm that all 120,000,000,000 bytes are seen by Windows? The reason I'm asking is that I once installed a 250GB WD HDD on my T43p. As expected, it gave an 2010 error (with the beep), but what I didn't expect was that not all of the 250,000,000,000 bytes were seen by Windows. I think it could see only 248 something. When I put that same drive into my T42, Windows could use all bytes.

Harryc wrote:8 cell Li-Ion batt >>Now new 6 Cell

You mean 4-cell, right?

Does it generate a "beep" just like the T43?

Yes, (2) short beeps

Harry, did you confirm that all 120,000,000,000 bytes are seen by Windows?

XP disk management reports 111.79 GB total including the IBM_Service partition.

You mean 4-cell, right?

Yeah I guess so. I am not that familiar with X4X batteries. It doesn't stick out the back if that helps determine what it is.

I installed a 1GB stick of PC2-5300 RAM in the X41. Windows now sees 1.5GB RAM installed. I'll leave it installed for the new owner, same price.

Gosh, if I was in the market for something like this, I would snatch it now. Oh well. Really want one of those new X200. I want performance and portability. My current lappy serves its purpose just fine, though I wish it was smaller (15.4" widescreen machine.) Powerful, but just barely portable.

This X41 is no longer available because it has been donated to a member in the military. Thanks for your interest in this machine, and in the thinkpads.com X41 Project.