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This is one of the forum "projects" that Harry's done. I've copied and pasted his description below as nothing cosmetically has changed. I've added more RAM and upgraded the CPU from Banias 1.6 to Dothan 1.6.

"For sale - A Thinkpad R51 in good condition. There are no cracks in the plastics, the keyboard (NMB Thai made) is in nice condition with very minor key shine. The LCD has a brand new backlight, and it is as bright as the day it came out of the box. There are no scratches on the LCD screen, no pressure marks, and no dead pixels. There are some specs of dust on the very bottom part of the LCD, visible only on a white background. There are some scratches on the outer LCD lid/cover from normal wear. There is a Windows XP COA associated with this machine, and the machine will come with XP Pro installed. I will include a set of XP recovery discs."

Here are the original specifications with my changes noted in bold;

Original description:
P M 1.6GHz >>Now Dothan 1.6 with Arctic Silver paste
256MB RAM >>Now 512MB RAM>> Now 2 GIG 2700 RAM
60GB 4200rpm HDD >>Now 40GB 5400rpm HDD
15" SXGA+(1400x1050) TFT LCD
32MB ATI Radeon 9000
24x24x24x/8x CD-RW/DVD >>Now CDROM Drive
Intel 802.11b/g wireless(MPCI)
Modem(CDC)
1Gb Ethernet(LOM)
UltraNav, Secure Chip
IEEE 1394
6 cell Li-Ion battery (lasts about an hour)

My wife has never liked the laptop, complained about it a lot. (Some of that was because it wasn't pretty.) So I've spent some time figuring out if her remarks had any merit, and added RAM and changed the CPU. She's on it all the time and watching videos,playing flash games, checking email - and is NOT knowledgeable - she wants it to be a toaster.

So now,after reformatting and reinstalling, lo and behold it's working great on everything I'm throwing at it. Might have been user related all along. But because of my "shadow of a doubt" disclosure rules, I want prospective buyers to know that there were issues with it at one time, since corrected.

I've lowered the price from what I paid, and added value to it as well. If I didn't have her dream laptop on the way I'd keep it to play with, but what's a guy going to do? After 35 years of marriage, I've learned a little. Besides, I need another X40.

$200 shipped and paypalled

Excellent price Dave.......

Good luck,
Ron

dwilsonfl wrote: My wife has never liked the laptop, complained about it a lot. (Some of that was because it wasn't pretty.) So I've spent some time figuring out if her remarks had any merit, and added RAM and changed the CPU. She's on it all the time and watching videos,playing flash games, checking email - and is NOT knowledgeable - she wants it to be a toaster.

So now,after reformatting and reinstalling, lo and behold it's working great on everything I'm throwing at it. Might have been user related all along. But because of my "shadow of a doubt" disclosure rules, I want prospective buyers to know that there were issues with it at one time, since corrected.

if i can ask, what problems was it having before/did she have with it?

She complained of it being slow and not playing you tube videos smoothly, of being able to get ahead of the computer when she typed. (She types 90 wpm). From what I could tell at the time (prior to the RAM and CPU upgrade), it was mostly because the "stepping" wasn't operating smoothly.

So I added the upgrades, made sure the BIOS was correctly set, and installed Network Hardware Control so I could max the processor action. Since it never ran on battery, that wasn't a problem.

Never heard another peep except for "it's old - it's ugly."

One add'l note on the laptop.

The hard drive that's in it does NOT have the recovery partition on it. I do have a set of recovery disks that will go with it, but I've never recreated a partition before. So if someone can PM me with how to do that it will help.

you've got PM

Hi:

Sent one pm last night and one earlier today.

Gary

Been out of pocket today,sorting through PMs now.