What Thinkpads have you owned?

[tf34mech]

I guess I have a long ways to go.
T23
R30

[Wentworth]

X31
T40
T43
R51
X60
X60s
T60
R61i
T61p

[mattfromomaha]

T23
T30
T42
T61

[lexicon]

701C
T23
X31
X40
X32
X60
T41
T41p
T42p
T43

[ThinkPad560X]

IBM ThinkPad:

701C (10" Display) Windows ME
755CD (10" Display) Windows ME
770 (13" Display) Windows XP Professional
760XD (12" Display) Windows XP Professional
760C (12" Display) Windows XP Professional
560X (12" Display) Windows XP Home Edition
380Z (13" Display) Windows XP Home Edition
390X (12" Display) Windows XP Professional
240 (10" Display) Windows XP Professional
600 (13" Display) Windows XP Professional
600X (13" Display) Windows XP Professional
570 (13" Display) Windows XP Professional
T20 (14" Display) Windows XP Professional
T30 (14" Display) Windows XP Professional
T40 (14" Display) Windows Vista Home Basic
T60 (15" Wide Display) Windows XP Home Edition
R31 (14" Display) Windows XP Professional
R40 (14" Display) Windows XP Professional
R51 (15" Display) Windows XP Professional
R60 (15" Display) Windows XP Professional
S30 (10" Display) Windows XP Professional
G40 (14" Display) Windows XP Professional
A22m (14" Display) Windows 2000 Professional
A30 (15" Display) Windows 7 Home Premium
X21 (12" Display) Windows XP Professional
X30 (12" Display) Windows XP Professional
X41 (12" Display) Windows XP Professional
X41T (12" Display) Windows XP Professional
X60 (12" Display) Windows XP Professional
i1200 (12" Display) Windows XP Professional
i1400 (13" Display) Windows XP Professional
SL500 (15" Wide Display) Windows XP Professional

IBM WorkPad:

Z50 (10" Display) Windows CE
20X (4" Display)

IBM NetVista M41 (IBM LCD 15" Display)
IBM ThinkCentre S50 (IBM LCD 15" Display)
IBM Aptiva 2170-801 (IBM LCD 15" Display)
IBM 8271 LAN

IBM Accessories:

IBM 15" LCD monitor 9512-HB0
IBM PS/2 white scroll mouse
IBM PS/2 white basic mouse
IBM USB black scroll mouse
IBM PS/2 ThinkPad UltraNav travel keyboard
IBM/lenovo USB ThinkPad travel keyboard "New and still availble"
IBM PS/2 white desktop media keyboard
IBM X4 Portable CD-ROM Drive
IBM Portable Drive Bay 2000 "2 of them"
Drive Bay 2000: CD-ROM, CD/DVD-ROM, CD/RW/DVD-ROM, Floppy, External HDD, Battery.
IBM UltraPlus WebCamera for ThinkPad T20.



My likes and dislikes: I Probably like my ThinkPad X41/600X, strong and light and feels solid, if not that then my T40. My cheapest would have to be my ThinkPad i1200. Crack on base in 3 areas, plastic feels cheap.

[tfflivemb2]

Since my signature changed, here is an update:
X200s,T61,T42(x4)T41,T40(x2),R52.R51,R40,T30(x2),T23(x3),T21,T20,X20,A31,A21M,600/E/X(multiples of each),770X,i1400(x2),760XL,760ED(x2 w/base),380XD,755CD,750P,360P,365X,560X,240,701C/CS,730T,PS/Note

I think that there is more. I will have to do a complete inventory. All I added to this list was the X200s and the 240 that I just picked up. There were a few others.

[Unknown_K]

My sig shows all that I have.

[ThinkRob]

750cs (inherited), 600E (bought used, for parts), 600X (refurbished to near-mint), X40 (dev. box for a short time), T43p (bought from George, in storage), T60 (refurbished to absolute mint condition), X60s (project machine, resold), X61s (primary machine for a year, gave away), T500 (current dev. machine), X200 (project machine for PVA upgrade, in storage), X200s (bought on Lenovo's campus, re-sold in the UK), T410 (current work machine.)

[o2nexus]

I've only had one Thinkpad, the one I'm using now, a T60p with 15 inch display. Since my first laptop around 1999 or so, I've always wanted one but never ended up with one until this year. I've owned 1 Gateway, 1 Sony, 3 Dell's, and 1 HP besides this one. The Gateway was my first and it also had a 15 inch display with a 4:3 ratio but only 1024 x 768. It was sweet at the time and I paid over 3k for it making it a seriously high end machine at the time. What made me finally get this T60p was the 4:3 1600 x 1200 display. I'll always prefer 4:3.

[killer]

What made me finally get this T60p was the 4:3 1600 x 1200 display. I'll always prefer 4:3.

4:3 seems to be a preference for many but the world is moving to 16:9 whether you like it or not.

Having owned a 16:9 machine since the end of July, I have found it to be amazing for displaying my 16:9 photos and viewing video footage shot in 16:9. Those images never looked sensible using a 4:3 screen.

Change is like a big steam engine rolling towards you. You may be able to deflect it but, if you stand in its way, it will kill you.

[jdhurst]

>>> 4:3 seems to be a preference for many but the world is moving to 16:9 whether you like it or not.

Sadly yes. A small focus group thinks 16:9 or some other feature is "cool", the tail wags the dog, and the rest of us gets saddled with it. ... JDH

[asiafish]

560e, 570x, 600, 600e, R60, R61i, T20 (X2), T22, T23, T42p, T60p, T400, X20, X22, X32, X41

I'd like to own an X201 (unlikely) or X100e, but hard to justify since moving to OS X for work and wanting to work and game on the same machine.

Currently I use a MacBook Pro i7 15" with high-res matte display, dual boot OS X (work) and Windows 7 Pro 64 (gaming) with excellent results. I'm debating passing the iPad to my wife and getting the new 11" MacBook Air, though for courtroom use the iPad is still better.

[ZaZ]

4:3 seems to be a preference for many but the world is moving to 16:9 whether you like it or not.

That may be true, but they're a drop in the bucket. The biggest buying factor for most is cost. Because of this manufacturers don't really have a lot of options. If they go against the grain and use 4:3 screens it'll cost more to manufacture, which will cost them sales. I don't necessarily see 4:3 as the best. WXGA is more usable than XGA. Perhaps on the higher resolution screens you've got a better argument. I'm much more interested in getting a quality screen than the resolution.

[Colonel O'Neill]

I can make do with widescreen if I use something like MaxMax to limit the maximized window size to a 4:3/5:4 ish proportion and allocate the extra space to a RainMeter sidebar or something. Autohiding the taskbar also gives back some vertical space. I do wonder how far LCD manufacturers can push this trend. Maybe we'll see 2:1's in the future

[pianowizard]

4:3 seems to be a preference for many but the world is moving to 16:9 whether you like it or not.

There is nothing wrong with whining on these message boards about the disappearance of 4:3, or 16:10 for that matter. In fact, with enough people complaining, the manufacturers may eventually listen and start making LCDs with those aspect ratios again. In fact, I suspect that these complaints contributed to Steve Jobs' picking a 4:3 screen for the iPad. I would shut up if 16:9 were really superior to 16:10, but it is not.

Having owned a 16:9 machine since the end of July, I have found it to be amazing for displaying my 16:9 photos and viewing video footage shot in 16:9. Those images never looked sensible using a 4:3 screen.

What resolution does your 16:9 machine have? And how do you like viewing Word or PDF documents on it? I too prefer to watch 16:9 videos on a 16:9 screen, but for most other tasks, 16:10 works better by giving me more vertical working area.

[killer]

My 16:9 machine has 1600 x 900 resolution. I find it perfect for 16:9 photos and videos.

No problem looking at Word or PDF documents. Its width allows me to use windows properly and lay two documents side by side.

Each to their own.

4:3 was frustrating for me if I wanted to look at video or wide-landscape photos. 16:9 works well if you take its upsides over the downsides.

[Temetka]

770 something
T23
T41p
T42
T60
X41t

Arriving this week a T43.

[twillis449]

I've had a T43, T60 and T61 all 14.1 in SXGA (1400 x 1050 pixels) so yes, I like that form factor

@jdhurst - my T61 came loaded with some abominable OS called Windows Vista Home Basic. No wonder some early T61 reviews were not that enthusiastic - lol. I replaced this thing with Ubuntu linux along with Windows XP (for those rare times when I must use a Windows OS) Under linux the thing runs very nicely. My T61 was a model 8889. It came with 3 wires in the lid for wireless N but the dumbed down intel 4965(?) card with wireless N disabled. i replaced the dumbed down card with a full wireless N 4965 card - fantastic connectivity!

[jdhurst]

Windows Home anything on the desktop has always been a problem. I used Vista Business until I switched to Windows Pro and it worked fine. Good news on the wireless. ... JDH

[ThinkPad560X]

I still like to use the standard display over widescreen. When I hook up my desktop to my new HDTv which everyone knows todays tvs are all wide display. It takes me awail to get the right resolution. where Its very easy and common to pick 800X600 for older PCs and with 2000-2005 1027X768. Im using my standard IBM LCD monitor 15" and it still fits me well. If I want wide display. I can switch to the new monitor next to this one. I only own 3 widescreen laptops: SL500, T60 and S10 + the 19" LCD monitor if counting that.

[emeraldgirl08]

600X, T30, R40, R51e, R52, & T400.

[RealBlackStuff]

I've had (or have) one of these:
Transnote
A22m
R40
X41T
HP Pavilion
Compaq Armada

I've had (or have) several of most of these:
R50
R50p
R51
R52
T21
T22
T23
T30
T40
T40p
T41
T41p
T42
T42p
T43
T43p
T60
Several Dell laptops

Currently I have about 20-odd Thinkpads, 1 Transnote, 1 HP and 1 Compaq