Total upgrade of a T60

[jknight770]

I'd like to upgrade my T60. I've read about upgrades to a T61 motherboard which seems promising. But it'd like to completely modernize the guts of it.

The only important features of my T60 that I want to keep are the screen (4:3!) and keyboard. Everything else I'd be happy to upgrade. The matte 4:3 screen is a beauty I can't seem to find elsewhere and I prefer it even over my anti-glare Macbook pro.

Is it possible to replace the motherboard with some brand new one -- who knows, a T430 or even some non-IBM motherboard -- and make it work with the keyboard and LCD ?

[TuuS]

A T61 board is as good as it gets, but don't put down the T61, it's way beyond what you can do with a T60 board, the ram limit alone goes from 3gb to 8gb, the max harddrive speed from 1.5 to 3.0gb/s, max processor speed from 2.33ghz to 2.8ghz and the max L2 cache from 4mb to 6mb. One of these units with an SSD iwill impress anyone.

[Phred]

Oooo. This sounds fun.

How simple is the swap of one for the other?

Edit:

Some good information here and here:

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=74413

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=68248

[ajkula66]

Oooo. This sounds fun.

How simple is the swap of one for the other?

Swapping bare boards should be done IMO only if you're performing it on a 15" T60/p frame with a FlexView screen.

For all other purposes, getting a 14" (4:3) T61 and maxing it out makes a lot more sense in my book.

[jknight770]

It's a T60, 2007 76U which has a screen of "15" SXGA+ 1400x1050 (Matte) 1 CCFL" (FRU #42T0325)

[ajkula66]

Now that IS nice.

Yep, throw a T61 board in there and call it a day. Plenty of info on "how to" on this forum.

Happy upgrading.