Thinkpads Forum

I'm not sure this is the appropriate place to pose this note, but I'll give it a go.

I have a wonderful T60 that's served me well for years, but it's getting a bit long in tooth and it's time to start thinking about a replacement Some of the things I'd like in a new (to me) TP:

--One or two generations back, to keep the cost down.

--Genuine Thinkpad, for a number of reasons.

--HDMI port, so I can remotely stream my Slingbox to a TV when I'm away from home.

--Optical drive bay.

--A model popular with business, so there'll be lots of parts available from off-lease units for years to come.

I see Edges at some pretty attractive prices, but I gather they don't have a good reputation.

What do you guys think?

TIA,
Larry

lmittell wrote:I have a wonderful T60 that's served me well for years, but it's getting a bit long in tooth and it's time to start thinking about a replacement.

How so? Perhaps upgrading to a SSD and maybe Windows 7, which runs quite nicely on a T60, might be worth considering? Provided your T60 still work well of course.

Traditional ThinkPads won't have HDMI, but do come with a displayport, which is easily converted to HDMI with a cable.

ZaZ wrote: How so? Perhaps upgrading to a SSD and maybe Windows 7, which runs quite nicely on a T60, might be worth considering? Provided your T60 still work well of course.

Traditional ThinkPads won't have HDMI, but do come with a displayport, which is easily converted to HDMI with a cable.

To tell the truth, the T60 is fine, and there's a seemingly endless supply of inexpensive replacement parts on fleabay and elsewhere. I'm already running Win7. An SSD of the size I need isn't available at a price I'm willing to pay, but sooner or later one will be.

What started all this is remote streaming the Slingbox. I was considering an Intel NUC for the purpose but thought it would be nice if I had to haul only one computing device around.

Maybe I should get a NUC. It's pretty tiny and not a great inconvenience to take along, though it's yet another thing to keep track of.


Larry

lmittell wrote:An SSD of the size I need isn't available at a price I'm willing to pay, but sooner or later one will be.

Another option if you're willing to forgo the optical, who burns anything these days, would be to buy a smaller SSD to use in the main bay for speed and toss your drive or a larger one in the modular caddy to put in the optical bay fro storage, where speed is not as critical.