Thinkpads Forum

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!!!

hoax32 wrote:Does the t60 have the flexing/cheap plastic(cracks)/gpu/solder/blink of dead problem?

No -- not any T60[p].

thanks ! :] More answers are welcome!!!

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

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

hoax32 wrote:... 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.