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Hey there, I plan on getting a 14" T61p when Penryn is available on Lenovo Canada, but here's just a couple of issues I would like to bring up:

I've heard rumors that Lenovo laptops will only accept Lenovo RAMs and Lenovo WAN cards in newer BIOS? And since Penryn will require a new BIOS, wouldn't that mean we're forced to buy expensive RAM?

Also, will the new BIOS affect the ability to overclock the GPU? I've heard the 15" T61p can overclock enough to perform on par / outperform a 8700 GT... What about a 14" T61p? I know its FX570 only has half the bandwidth rate of the 15" one, but that shouldn't affect its overclockability right?

Meaning, if I play games on a low enough resolution, a 14" T61p can perform in the ball park of a 8700 GT?

whatevs wrote:I've heard rumors that Lenovo laptops will only accept Lenovo RAMs and Lenovo WAN cards in newer BIOS? And since Penryn will require a new BIOS, wouldn't that mean we're forced to buy expensive RAM?

what you heard is exactly that; a rumor.   there is absolutely no truth to it whatsoever.   the staff here at thinkpads.com have discussed this directly with lenovo and they have stated to us that future lenovo thinkpads will accept third-party memory modules.

What about the WAN card?

Or other mini pcie hardwares?

They've always whitelisted what you can put into the internal mini PCI/PCI-E slots