carl0s Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 I'm thinking of selling my trusty Thinkpad. I do love it, it's the best tool I've ever owned, and will only be replaced by a T43/p. It started life as a T41 2373-8RG (base model, 1.6GHz 1mb L2, cdrom, no wireless, no bluetooth), and this is how I bought it from a local eBay seller about a year ago. I then upgraded the processor to a 1.7GHz P-M with the 2mb cache, I upgraded to a CDRW/DVD combo drive, I added an Atheros A/B/G Wireless LAN card, I added the bluetooth module and lid/indicators etc, and upgraded the memory to 768mb. I also upgraded the HDD to an 80gb Seagate unit, which failed recently, and has been replaced again with an 80gb Toshiba unit about a month ago. edit: I just upgraded it again with a new DVD ReWriter. This machine has the active protection gyroscopes for detecting tilt/motion/drops, and parking the hard disk heads to prevent hdd failure. It has the ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 32mb graphics, which plays Quake 3 pretty well indeed Battery life is about 2hrs 30min. So full specs are: 1.73Ghz Intel Pentium-M (Centrino) Atheros a/b/g WLAN DVD ReWriter 768mb DDR RAM 80gb 5,400rpm HDD Bluetooth Gigabit Ethernet 14.1" XGA TFT Ultranav Trackpoint/Touchpad combo Basically, you can currently buy a T42 2373 for £550 + vat (£646) which is similar in spec. For your £646 you would get an identical machine but with 512mb memory and a 40gb HDD. I am looking for £400. I'm not super eager to sell, but if I cna get £400, then I'll put the other £400 to myself for a T43/p. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 I have the biometric version of this machine at work, an excellent laptop - I've dropped mine loads of times and the self protection feature has saved me We gave about 100 of them out to users last year and apart from one that got run over we haven't had a single one back for repair. Thumbs up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted January 29, 2007 Author Share Posted January 29, 2007 Yup I love 'em too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted February 8, 2007 Author Share Posted February 8, 2007 Now upgraded again with a new DVD-ReWriter, since the CDRW stopped working just when I wanted to burn a Mr Big CD - doh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted February 10, 2007 Author Share Posted February 10, 2007 Sold to one of my customers I'm desperately trying to see if there's anything else I'd rather have for £750, but I just think this is the daddy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 looks cack though eh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted February 10, 2007 Author Share Posted February 10, 2007 looks cack though eh It's an acquired taste. They look awesome to me I agree the R-series look cack, but the T series is very thin and professional looking. They're like a Porsche compared to a mundano. (the picture on that site is wrong - they've got a 15" model pictured, which is a little bit fatter at the front than the 14.1" model) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 always got to be a widescreen for a laptop for me. got a dell thing for work, looks nice works shit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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