Another month, another nice deal... A Thinkpad T61 7663-C64

[turkka80]

Being on constant lookout has allowed me to score from our local ebay-like site...

A very cheap cool running silent nice conditioned Thinkpad T61 7663-C64, a bit more modern machine than the last one. Very nice indeed. Battery seems to be in fine condition as well too.

There seems to be a habit forming around here!

[RealBlackStuff]

I hope you checked the date on the bottom, (on the label, after the S/N: L3-12345, format YY/MM).
Since that machine has the rather infamous nVidia graphics I hope that date is 08/08 or newer!

[turkka80]

It is 08/05 actually and yes I am aware of the G86 woes. But then again, it is made in -08 and has discrete graphics and it hasn't yet failed so it's probably not the weakest of the batch. And I still own the Latitude that's in my signature which also has NVS140M so I guess I'm living on the edge.

I've owned quite a many laptops, mostly near decade old beasts and I have a grand total of 3 failed GPUs, one was a G86 8600M which was a shame because it powered a rather interesting laptop which had a 19,1" display. Other was a NVidia FX5200 Go and the third was a Ati Radeon Xpress 1100.

[SurrealMustard]

I've owned quite a many laptops, mostly near decade old beasts and I have a grand total of 3 failed GPUs, one was a G86 8600M which was a shame because it powered a rather interesting laptop which had a 19,1" display. Other was a NVidia FX5200 Go and the third was a Ati Radeon Xpress 1100.

Did you mean 19.1"? If so, what kind of laptop features a 19" monitor?

[evening_hunger]

(After answering you could add how much do you want for it:) )

[turkka80]

Did you mean 19.1"? If so, what kind of laptop features a 19" monitor?

Oh yes I did... It was 19" or 19,1" can't recall right now. 19 inch as stated in the manual. It was never really meant to be a mobile device as it originally came with a 3-cell battery which the sticker stated to be a UPS-battery. Never had one in mine though.
It was a LG S900 and if I remember correctly it was called LG X-Note 900 as well in some countries. More info on the beast lies here

http://www.lpmanual.com/lg-s900

Nothing extremely spectacular about it, the size and rather cheap price got me buying it. I used it pretty much for home theater machine, playing Netflix and stuff like that on external monitor, but it was good enough to use for something else at the same time with it's own monitor as well. Another funny point about the machine was that it had a desktop 3,5" hard disk.

(After answering you could add how much do you want for it:) )

Sadly I don't have it any more. Pretty much took it apart and took the good parts out. It did contain a changeable graphics card but like the machine itself, there were none of those available so it went to recycling after the failure.

[SurrealMustard]

Did you mean 19.1"? If so, what kind of laptop features a 19" monitor?

Oh yes I did... It was 19" or 19,1" can't recall right now. 19 inch as stated in the manual. It was never really meant to be a mobile device as it originally came with a 3-cell battery which the sticker stated to be a UPS-battery. Never had one in mine though.
It was a LG S900 and if I remember correctly it was called LG X-Note 900 as well in some countries. More info on the beast lies here

http://www.lpmanual.com/lg-s900

Nothing extremely spectacular about it, the size and rather cheap price got me buying it. I used it pretty much for home theater machine, playing Netflix and stuff like that on external monitor, but it was good enough to use for something else at the same time with it's own monitor as well. Another funny point about the machine was that it had a desktop 3,5" hard disk.

(After answering you could add how much do you want for it:) )

Sadly I don't have it any more. Pretty much took it apart and took the good parts out. It did contain a changeable graphics card but like the machine itself, there were none of those available so it went to recycling after the failure.

Very interesting. Not a whole lot of information on the web about that one and no current or completed listings for it at all on eBay. But you say it took a 3,500 3.5" hard drive? That must've been a thick case then.

[turkka80]

Very interesting. Not a whole lot of information on the web about that one and no current or completed listings for it at all on eBay. But you say it took a 3,500 3.5" hard drive? That must've been a thick case then.

Yes there seems to be really little info available. I have no idea how many of these were ever produced, there were also models that had Intel graphics (X3100 if I remember correctly) and also no idea on how expensive they were in the first place. If I have to take a guess then I'd say that it wasn't hugely popular.

I had never heard of it before I bought it and haven't seen another one since. And it was always referred as a desktop replacement rather than a laptop, and even that info page said that battery life was 2 hours, mine had a sticker that stated battery life as 15 minutes...

But it seems that we're getting a tad off-topic...

[turkka80]

For those curious about the LG S900 there's a disassembly video which lets you see just how large it is. That machine being disassembled is the one with Intel video if I remember correctly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0HTbtfDNTY