T60 questions

[hoax32]

Hi everybody!
Im new here and this is my first post!
Im a huge ThinkPad Fan and I was a proud owner of following moddels:

T20
A20m
A22m
T31

Sadly age was catching up and all of them broke (flexing, crappy HDD, Broken RAM Slots, Blink of death, Fried USB Chipset, Cold Solder spots, GPU / CPU overheating)

But its gonna take ALOT more to stop me from buying Thinkpads! xD
I ordered a Mint lightly used T60 with a 60GB HDD, Core Duo 1.83GHz, 1GB DDR2 RAM and a Radeon x1300 GPU.

Does the T60 have any of those problems?
Is the plastic cheap? (cracks easily, bents)
Any flexing?
Does it get hot easily?

Thanks for all coming replys!!!

[EOMtp]

Does the t60 have the flexing/cheap plastic(cracks)/gpu/solder/blink of dead problem?

No -- not any T60[p].

[hoax32]

thanks ! :] More answers are welcome!!!

[hoax32]

I updated my post! :]
Appriciate any help from T60 / former T60 owners!

[Johan]

I suggest you check the thread Advice please - $700-$800 TP for college student - and the links pointed to therein! - there you'll find a great deal of information about T60's identical and similar to the one you have purchased.

I am convinced that you will be able to answer pretty much all of your questions by searching in the (vast!) the depositories of this forum; in this regard you may benefit from HarryC's script here. Good luck with your own search for more information, and congratulations with your new T60!

Johan

[EOMtp]

... CPU overheating

Sooner or later, the thermal paste will deteriorate, and the CPU overheating will first manifest itself upon starting Windows, where the machine is "stuck" on a very dim Windows logo screen as Windows tries to load. When you see that (and, with a machine several years old, used or unused, it's a matter of when, not if), just be aware that the problem is that you need to replace the thermal paste, rather than there being anything wrong with the machine's display.