<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">you bought it an SSD instead of a fan?</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Nathan England <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nathan@nmecs.com" target="_blank">nathan@nmecs.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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I have a T500 that I bought years ago. I begged and begged and Lenovo support sent me the better hard-backed keyboard which I promptly replaced. It was originally a core 2 duo 2.8GHz with 4GB of ram and a 160GB 7200 rpm drive.<br>
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The fan went out a week after the warranty ended and I never had the extra 60 bucks to replace it, so it has lived on with the dual cores disabled in bios and powermanagement forcing it to run at 800MHz.<br>
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I replaced the hard drive with a Samsung 840 Pro SSD and still use it with a single core at 800 and that laptop is faster than HP zBook with a fancy new core i7 and 16GB of ram. Well, it was until I put the same SSD in the zBook... but that's a different story.<br>
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Long live Lenovo Thinkpads!<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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On 2015-10-06 16:02, <a href="mailto:joe@actionline.com" target="_blank">joe@actionline.com</a> wrote:<br>
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Thanks again for all the helpful input in response to my<br>
recent question: "What is your advice to update my system?"<br>
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After much research, I finally decided that, for my needs, the best<br>
option was a used T420 Thinkpad. I've had excellent results with IBM<br>
Thinkpads and never had one fail. Now they are all Lenovo, of course; and<br>
I found one from a private party on Craigslist for $200 that looks<br>
absolutely brand new, like it has never been used, and with 8-Gb RAM.<br>
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Lots of them on ebay for as little as $99 with no OS and priced all over<br>
the map up to $500 and even more.<br>
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Now just need to flush the 500-gig hard drive and install Linux Mint and<br>
I should be good to go for the next 5 years or longer.<br>
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