ThinkPad Owners Thread

[Scarath]

I have the old T40, it works 'out of the box' with Ubuntu and has really sold me as far as thinkpads go, they are just a wonderful little machine and like many people have said, they are all business! Which i love.

Although one of my friends did ask me if i stole it from a bank ... lol


p.s. Need Some Advice!

Anyway can anyone vouch for the 9-cell batteries than Lenovo put out? Are they worth the £100 (rather than paying £40 for the 6 cell)???

http://www5.pc.ibm.com/europe/produc...ookup/_92P1102

I have just got the factory shipped batt on this thing and its starting to die (i can only charge it to about 70%).

[insane_alien]

had a nice R50e. only thing i can fault it on is its crappy performance under 1.2 tesla magnetic fields. though all consumer PC's and laptops suffer from this unless well shielded but prefferable at a good distance.

[LaRoza]

p.s. Need Some Advice!

Anyway can anyone vouch for the 9-cell batteries than Lenovo put out? Are they worth the £100 (rather than paying £40 for the 6 cell)???

I would get it if I used my battery a lot. If you don't use you run on battery only for longer periods of time, I would recommend staying with the less expensive battery.

[zcal]

Here's a little treasure I just dug up that I think y'all might find interesting. It's a ThinkPad 360Cs. We got it a few years ago from a friend of the family when the company he worked for was getting rid of it. I have no idea what made them keep it as long as they did, but here it is now.

I yanked the included image from this eBay item, so you can see what mine looks like. (That's not me who's selling, by the way!) The specs on the auction are the same as mine...Intel 486, 12 mb RAM, 360 mb hdd...but I have a power cord and battery. Indeed, mine STILL WORKS!

It's got Windows 95 installed on it, which must have been done from floppy disk, interestingly enough. But, I'm not terribly interested in keeping it that way.

Any suggestions as to what I could do with this thing?

[LaRoza]

Try puppy or another OS in the Other OS Talk forum sticky on old computers.

Looks like a good machine.

[dedmonds]

I own ThinkPad T61, T41, and T22 laptops and have been very, very happy with each of them. I run Ubuntu of all of them without any significant problems.

(I do have a small problem on the T41 with the video card after the laptop has been running for some time, but that was caused by my 2-year-old standing on it while he tried to get on the couch. )

-D-

[LaRoza]

I own ThinkPad T61, T41, and T22 laptops and have been very, very happy with each of them. I run Ubuntu of all of them without any significant problems.

(I do have a small problem on the T41 with the video card after the laptop has been running for some time, but that was caused by my 2-year-old standing on it while he tried to get on the couch. )

-D-

Cool. I have the R61, perfect with Ubuntu.

ThinkPads can survive a lot, but I doubt 2 year olds are factored in

[hvac3901]

i actually aquired a T22 for my five year old recently. And chose to load edubuntu on it, works like a champ except for the wireless card (no OS problem its dead, and the battery needs replacing) other than that owrks fine. and pretty fast considering.

[IvanI]

In the past 4 years Ive gotten my grubby paws on several thinkpads.
In no particular order:

701cs ; butterfly keyboard 70mhz intel cpu and 8 mb of ram
390e ; pentium II 333mhz 128 mb ram
570e ; pentium 3 500mhz 192 mb ram (I wish they had continued making 13" notebooks)
T40 ; pentium m 1.5 Ghz 786mb ram

I bought the T40 off ebay for school stuff, and I have had trouble finding anything so far that rivals it in terms of build quality; other than the rest of the T series of course

[regomodo]

i was curious about IBM thinkpad mini-cpi whitelisting due to the BIOS. Has anyone come into trouble with using the mini-pci slot. The reason i ask is what i found when i added a random wifi card to my 570e.

I also added internal antenna to my 'pad and works rather well.