ThinkPad R51 (and desk setup)

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#1 Post by **thePCxp** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 12:35 am

My R51:

http://img348.imageshack.us/my.php?image=00002956yc.jpg

ThinkPad at the beach:

http://img348.imageshack.us/my.php?image=00002960di.jpg

My desk setup (I have an IBM NetVista A22p desktop with a 17 inch white E74 monitor):

http://img231.imageshack.us/my.php?image=00003065hm.jpg

http://img350.imageshack.us/my.php?image=00003087kz.jpg

#2 Post by **thePCxp** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 2:25 am

Gustavo · #3 Post by **Gustavo** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 3:13 am

Hi

Nice laptop, I have to say that the pics are rather out of focus.
Do you clean your TP sometimes, if not you should use isopropanol thats the best clean liquid for computer (its mostly ethanol so it vaporised very quickly but clean very well plastic and glass)

The reason I am pointing this out is the mark on your screen rim bottom left corner where the standby pin is located its looks very dirty on the pictures or maybe damaged? .

Once a Thinkpad lover, always an Thinkpad lover

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NS · #4 Post by NS » Sat Jun 17, 2006 3:18 am

The pictures are out of focus and the pictures make me go dizzy. But it is a nice laptop. R51? or R52? I know it should be an R series laptop.

#5 Post by **AlphaKilo470** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 4:15 am

Yikes, what's the laptop doing at the beach? Between the san and dirt and water and little kids, I wouldn't trust even my age old PowerBook Duo out there and besides, there are other things to do there like get a tan or get wet or cruise around.

Well, nice computer. What's the name of the dog I saw in some of those pictures?

gunston · #6 Post by **gunston** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 8:38 am

nice.~

#7 Post by **thePCxp** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 1:32 am

Gustavo wrote:Hi

Nice laptop, I have to say that the pics are rather out of focus.

NS wrote:The pictures are out of focus and the pictures make me go dizzy.

What do you two mean that the pictures are out of focus?

Gustavo wrote:Do you clean your TP sometimes, if not you should use isopropanol thats the best clean liquid for computer (its mostly ethanol so it vaporised very quickly but clean very well plastic and glass)

The reason I am pointing this out is the mark on your screen rim bottom left corner where the standby pin is located its looks very dirty on the pictures or maybe damaged? .

I clean my ThinkPad everyday. The mark on the screen where the standby pin is located is from when I was putting it back because it broke. My ThinkPad fell while it was in my backpack at school one time and it was okay except that the standby pin broke and I had to put it back.

NS wrote:But it is a nice laptop. R51? or R52? I know it should be an R series laptop.

It's an R51.

AlphaKilo470 wrote:Yikes, what's the laptop doing at the beach? Between the san and dirt and water and little kids, I wouldn't trust even my age old PowerBook Duo out there and besides, there are other things to do there like get a tan or get wet or cruise around.

I brang my ThinkPad to the beach but I didn't use it, I just wanted to bring it along with me (my ThinkPad goes almost everywhere I go), and I did do stuff that you do on the beach like go in the water.

AlphaKilo470 wrote:What's the name of the dog I saw in some of those pictures?

The dog in some of the pictures was my dog Speedy.

#8 Post by **AlphaKilo470** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 2:00 am

Speedy actually reminds me a good bit of my best friends dog, Brody.

gearguy · #9 Post by **gearguy** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 6:48 am

I wouldn't say out of focus, I would say soft focus. Since the lens isn't particularily focused on anything, it is still focused on the laptop more than the rest of the picture.

To the Photographer:

Just make it out as intentional and artistic.

#10 Post by **KristianJ** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 6:55 am

gearguy wrote:I wouldn't say out of focus, I would say soft focus. Since the lens isn't particularily focused on anything, it is still focused on the laptop more than the rest of the picture.

Yeah - if the pics were downsized a bit they'd probably look fine

We're not all capable of making our TPs look as sharp and beautiful as the guy with the T60 in the other thread.

it's a shame that the children are more interested in making sandcastles rather than adoring your R51...

dsigma6 · #11 Post by **dsigma6** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 2:21 pm

just reiterating that the whole beach thing...not so good!

#12 Post by **thePCxp** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 3:40 am

Here are some more (recent) pictures of my ThinkPad:

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h264/ ... 0_0220.jpg
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h264/ ... 0_0228.jpg
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h264/ ... 0_0229.jpg

And here is my ThinkPad and I:
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h264/ ... 0_0216.jpg

#13 Post by **schen** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 12:27 pm

Just an aside on the beach thing. My wife's grandparents travel a lot and live on the coast of Texas in the winter. But anyway, their email machine that they used for several years was a 560. When it finally got too old to use, I replaced it and took the 560 for parts. The first thing I did was to pull the very small, old hdd and the thing had honest to gosh RUST on it. I'm just amazed that it was still spinning up when I pulled it!

christopher_wolf · #14 Post by **christopher_wolf** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 1:35 pm

schen wrote:Just an aside on the beach thing. My wife's grandparents travel a lot and live on the coast of Texas in the winter. But anyway, their email machine that they used for several years was a 560. When it finally got too old to use, I replaced it and took the 560 for parts. The first thing I did was to pull the very small, old hdd and the thing had honest to gosh RUST on it. I'm just amazed that it was still spinning up when I pulled it!

That's what being next the ocean alot will do to anything with metal in it after awhile, protected with a sacrificial anode or just tons of paint; neither of which a HDD has. Still, I think that is a pretty unique case to put in for. Rust on the casing of the HDD? Amazing, indeed.

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