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That's not to say that my $135 bid price should be considered average for all T420 eBay sales. Realistically, I think it's on the low-to-average side of getting a HDD-less system, with at least 4GB of memory, a nice clean and bright HD+ panel and does not have any other major problems. Could you score a complete system for that price or lower? Sure, if you're patient enough. Looking into recently closed sales, there's many systems being sold ready to go out of the box for $300+ (at least 4GB of memory, W7 Pro, fair sized HDD or smaller SSD). It's just that I'm not in that portion of the market since I'm putting in my own drives and loading the OS from my recovery disks.

Hans Gruber wrote: You are preaching to the choir here with me. Samsung drives are excellent.

If this is what you define as excellent, then by all means enjoy:

http://www.overclock.net/t/1507897/sams ... -the-drive

Nice price!

One thing I don't like about the T410s is the case is weak.

I have a crack in the case inside the screw hole where one of the screws attaches in the corner near the optical drive. Since the case is cracked the screw is not doing it's job and the entire right side of the laptop flexes when I move the screen. Owned it since new and treated it well. I wonder if the flex might eventually kill the laptop.

The fan is also really loud (unless you slow it down with TPFancontrol).

sir_synthsalot wrote:Nice price!

One thing I don't like about the T410s is the case is weak.

I have a crack in the case inside the screw hole where one of the screws attaches in the corner near the optical drive. Since the case is cracked the screw is not doing it's job and the entire right side of the laptop flexes when I move the screen. Owned it since new and treated it well. I wonder if the flex might eventually kill the laptop.

The fan is also really loud (unless you slow it down with TPFancontrol).

I had a brand new T43p with a 14" monitor. I think I paid $1,300 for it. It died an early and young death. I still keep it as a bookend refusing to part with it. Acquiring these T410 and T410s Thinkpads is my reward for my T43p which lasted about 2 years.

You could always buy a barebones T410s and transfer your hard drive and keyboard to the replacement. What are the specs on your T410s?

I have a base model (no webcam, no FP, no bluetooth, no card reader). It originally came with a 1.8" mechanical drive which was painfully slow.

i5 520M
2x4GB (Upgrade)
1.8" Kingston SSD 128GB (Upgrade)
Intel 6300 (Upgrade)

I didn't know you could get Nvidia graphics though. Thought all the s models had Intel.

There's several T410s model types listed in the ltwbook.pdf file which have switchable graphics (i.e., Nvidia NVS 3100M).

The T410s 2x have arrived. For 5 years old they are both in very good condition. One was advertised as "A" grade (no dust in the USB ports) and it's not quite A grade but it's good. I have to wait until tomorrow for the mule SSD drive to arrive to test them out and put on Windows 7 pro. One of the T410s thinkpads arrived with a HDD cover even though it said it didn't have one. One has the Nvidia Quadro graphics. I am waiting on the mSATA adapter.

So I am 3 for 3 with quality T410 series laptops. I have 8GB of ram in the mail from newegg that should arrive tomorrow.