Buy R61E? [HELP with CPU Upgrade]

[manfred]

Hello. I want to buy for a low price R61e 15,4 with Intel Celeron. Is it worth to upgrade this to C2D? Or it's better to buy T60 14,1 screen with Core Duo? I'm not sure if the screen in T60 isn't too small.

[davidgurvich]

I would suggest getting a T60p with core 2 duo and firegl instead of the R61e if they are close in price.

[ajkula66]

R61e would be my preference.

Easy upgrade to a newer Core 2 Duo CPU.

BIOS flash enables full SATA II (3.0) speeds - not an option on T60/p.

Good luck.

[manfred]

the only disadvantage can be that there's no touchpad :<

what CPUs can I put there? The type is: 7650-0rg

http://allegro.pl/c2d-core2duo-t6500-2m ... 73697.html

Will it be good? I'm thinking about the cache. 4MB are really much more expensive than 2mb.
What FSB should it be (600 or 800)? Now there is a Celeron M there.

Lenovo's page says:
Intel Core Duo processor

T7100(1.8GHz)
T7300(2GHz)
T7500(2.2GHz)

So Core2Duo is not possible?

[davidgurvich]

All the cpus that you mention are core 2 duo. I'm not sure how much advantage sata II would be over sata I on a laptop unless you get an SSD.

[manfred]

I'm not specially looking at Hard Drive. I'm looking for best LCD screen, and the R61e claims to have better 15,4 and the better resolution. I'm only afraid of Fan crash, they're quite expensive.

[ajkula66]

Another thing to consider...R61/e will run 8GB RAM...as opposed to 3GB on T60/p...

[manfred]

Wow, I didn't know they are able to get 8GB!
I bought this laptop for about 140 dollars so in Poland is not quite expensive.
I'm thinking of buying a part with touchpad from R60. Will it work? I've been reading there is no special connector for touchpad.

[ajkula66]

It will not work so don't waste your money. The motherboard has no connector for touchpad/fingerprint reader on "e" models.

Pick up a nice CPU (T7300 or above) and enjoy the machine.

[manfred]

And here it is ! Post office were today and my Thinkpad has come
It looks really great, with orginal instructions ;D But Vista was a crap. I decided to use Recovery. But it doesn't work. Bios shows there is a service partition, but after putting ThinkVantage Button nothing is going on and Vista boots. It's really slow. I decided to put Windows Xp on it, but Recovery still is on my mind ;D

I have also some doubts about a fan. It's quiet, but I can hear some "tttttttttt" sounds, very quiet. I'm really afraid of it Maybe it should sound like that.