Thinkpad X60 Tablet on steroid

[Frenchi]

I have a x200, 8 gig, with an intel ssd of 160 gig. It's fast but my wife like it so much (me too) I leave it to her. I bought, for me, to work, a recertified Thinkpad X60 Tablet (1.83 core Duo) at $300. This thing look like new. First, I put the 80 gig intel ssd previously from my x200 in it. I add 4 gig (2x2)of Kingston Hyper X cas4 in it. I flashed the bios at 1.15 (it was 2 bioses behind). Then, I dowload the bios 1.15 from Zender to cancel the wireless whitelist. I add an intel wifi 6200 wireless lan mini card with a germany made mini card extension to fit perfectly like the full size intel 3945 in it. Everything worked great. Loaded windows 7 32 bit with Lenovo update and driver 4.0. Double click the update and it took care of all the update in about 2 hours. No question mark in device manager. Everything installed perfectly. (Same process I did with my Thinkpad G40 to install win7 32 bit in it). This notebook is almost the speed of the x200, with faster, better wireless. (I do not change the wireless intel 5100 on the x200 because I would have to accept to be 4 bioses behind in using the Zender available) Unbelievable how a ssd can destroy the bottleneck of speed. There is a lot of life left on this machine.

[Atreides]

Always nice to hear about an "older" machine being given new life.

Who needs new computers anyways?

[aceo07]

Too bad there's no way to upgrade the X series CPU.

I'm finally feeling limited on my x61t. Upgraded to 8GB RAM (max), upgraded to Intel 320 300GB SSD, running Windows 7 Pro 64bit.

If there was a X220t that had 1400x1050 resolution display, it would have been a no brainer upgrade...

[loyukfai]

You can try the dual IDA mod to overclock the CPU a little bit.

Cheers.

[dmdsoftware]

My personal X61t (SXGA+) with intel 80GB 1.8" SSD + 8GB RAM smokes my work T410 even though the T410 has 4 threads, latest cpus etc but no SSD. Goes to show you how perfect a 3-4+ year old laptop can perform when you speed up i/o.

[loyukfai]

It's generally understood that in many usage cases, the storage subsystem is the limiting factor, therefore a SSD is more likely to bring a noticeable gain.

If you're running computational intensive software, the T410 is likely blow your SSD-equipped X61T off the water.

Cheers.