
http://www.nottes.com/notebook/main.asp ... oardid=424
http://www.nottes.com/notebook/main.asp ... oardid=297
http://www.nottes.com/notebook/main.asp ... oardid=420
http://www.nottes.com/notebook/main.asp ... oardid=422
By far the most profesisonal photographs of the T60 that I've seen. They also dissected it and it's clear that the internals have been seriously rearranged.
Observations:
The wireless card connector is narrower than mPCI. Proprietary?
RAM is now stacked and both cards are under the touchpad in the palmrest. That will make adding/changing the second stick a little more difficult.
The fan has been moved off the mainboard. The heatsink/cooler takes up a lot of footprint.
If the author of the review is correct, the bluetooth module has been separated from the modem and moved into the display housing beside the inverter board.
I still can't quite tell, but I think that they have switch about half of the screws from phillips to torx/flathead. I could be wrong about this. They may be phillips/flathead combos like the one on the memory door of the T-4x. Does anyone have a better picture?
The IR port has a purple LED inside. Does the T4x have that? I've never used the IR port.
When will they stop putting IBM on the freakin case?
The ThinkVantage Productivity Center software looks pretty clean -- I like it.
The specs show the PCMCIA slot as type I/II. Since the PCMCIA slot is on the bottom, wouldn't it support a type III card as long as no ExpressCard is installed? They do say that the ExpressCard can be single- or double-height, so the omission of PCMCIA type III support is all the more glaring.
The power connector is a stand-alone connctor that interfaces to the motherboard by wire. BRILLIANT! I'll never have to resolder another motherboard-mounted power connector. This should drop the repair cost in a wort-case scenario from ~$500 to ~$20!! The same goes for two of the three USB connectors.
It *appears* that there are two wirless card slots (what would have been mPCI in the T4x but they are smaller now). Would one of them be for the Verizon card (suggesting that it's discrete rather than integrated with the WiFi card)?
The rollcage is much more substantial than in the T4x. With the keyboard and palmrest removed, one is looking at a whole lot of rollcage. The same areas (over the HDD and ODD slots in particular) were covered in perforated sheet metal and plastic in the T4x (IIRC)
Discuss...
-darren