Upgrades for my R40

[sgt_spike]

Does anyone know where I can go to find out what grades I can do to my thinkpad r40?
I want to upgrade my HD, my cd-rom to DVD, and possbably my video

[wolfman]

What model R40 do you have? That will help folks know what CPU options you may have, etc. I'm not sure there is a site per se that you can be forwarded to that will have all the information laid out unfortunately (you can get your detailed specs from www.ibm.com - search for your model number for example).

Either way, the video upgrade is a no go - it's soldered on the motherboard and can't be upgraded....I've upgraded the hard disk in my R40 - was painless with the ultrabay 2000 second hard disk drive adapter ($40 or so) and Acronis TrueImage software....

[pjm99au]

Upgrading the CD drive to DVD is painless using a standard ultrabay drive. You can also use the ultrabay enhanced drive but you need the optional adaptor for the enhanced drive. I don't think that the ultrabay slim drives will work though. If your system was originally configured with a CD drive you may not have the WinDVD software installed. It is included in the rescue disks but you may have to reinstall windows to get it.

[Chiana]

Hard drive should give you a great performance boost. I am getting ready to replace my 4200 rpm 40 gb on my R40 with a 7200 rpm 80gb Hitachi 7K100. From my research (reviews, here, etc) it seems the Hitachi 7k100 is the way to go. Best price I found was on New Egg. From what I have read I should only lose 10 minutes of battery life. I'm planning on ofsetting that by replacing my CDROM drive with a secondary battery.

-Chris