Best Frankenpad I can build?

[FollowingGhosts]

Hi all,
Won a couple of Thinkpads on eBay, a T60 2007-66G and a T61 7659-CTO and they should be with me by the end of the week.

Both I don't know if work, but it's a risk I can afford to take for the sake of £27. I've no problem with stripping them down to replace parts and so forth.

My question is, what is the best spec I could bring either of these machines up to, I must admit, the T60 with the 1450x1050 display looks somewhat wonderful and what sort of battery could I eke out of it with any improvements I make, I assume newer CPUs/boards would be more power efficient and so forth. I'm willing to put money into a machine that would last me through Uni as a compliment to my desktop and X230.

Thanks in advance

[RMSMajestic]

The best you can get so far is T61 mobo+QX9300+8GB+SSD. But that requires certain level of skills.
without any hardware modifications, the best you can get is X9000+8GB+SSD