Help keep my T60p viable

[stepon]

Hi guys,
My T60p is getting a little old in the tooth and used to be my main computer but my CG graphics needs have been upgraded to pseudo professional due to acceptance into a top design school in my area. Now with a beefy tower as my workhorse, I've found the T60p to be buggy and clunky in the tasks I had always found easy. A new OS would help both with clean out and full compatibility with my workstation (networking). But hardware upgrades I'm not sure on. Can you guys recommend things you'all have found most satisfying?

My current specs are:
2613CTO
3,072 MB RAM
1.995 GHz
80 GB HDD

My upgrade path is:
Windows 7 Home 32bit
SSD 128GB
New CMOS Battery?

Oh, and if you'd like me to share the project that I built on my Thinkpad to get accepted into Art Center, let me know...seemed inappropriate here.
Obliged,

[craigmontHunter]

That is a very nice system, and even though it may seem slow compared to your tower, thats the way that technology works - as soon as you have a piece of it in your hands, it is no longer the fastest . From what I have read, the SSD will provide a huge improvement, and so will windows 7. No matter what you do, it will have a diffrent (read slower) feel from your desktop, but there is not much you can do about that.

Overall your system is pretty well maxed as it is, try the windows 7 and ssd upgrades and see if that helps

[stepon]

I've actually blown through 2 fans due to constant rendering on my T60p. I remember at one point having 3 fans blowing on it while being hung up like a fat trout but it plowed through 1080p animation sequences like a champ...well aside from those internal fans mentioned earlier.

Sounds good CraigmontHunter. Was my feeling too, now to see what kind of SSD is compatible...off to Thinkpads.com forum search field!

[Harryc]

Any 2.5" SATA SSD is compatible. The only caveat on the T60P is that the SATA controller is limited to SATA I speed = 1.5Gbps. Still very fast though. I have one in mine.

[thdanh90]

Interesting enough, I recently acquired a used T60p with the same serial, same spec and intended to upgrade the same route.

[stepon]

Congrats and welcome to the community!
Been a wallflower ever since my T21 days but hey, life's too short to blend in to the background - amiright?!

I'm looking at a Samsung 128GB Solid State Drive MZ-5PA128. Seems slow and cheap but reliable, this drive will live and die in this T60p so no need to future proof...though if you guys see any 1.5 GB/s drives around 80GB, I'm all ears.

Hey, I can't find all that stuff about upgrading to a third antenna for the T60 anymore. You know the one where you get a new daughter card and finagle it all together? Whatever happened to those posts?