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.

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.

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.

Long live Lenovo Thinkpads!



On 2015-10-06 16:02, joe@actionline.com wrote:
> Thanks again for all the helpful input in response to my
> recent question: "What is your advice to update my system?"
> 
> After much research, I finally decided that, for my needs, the best
> option was a used T420 Thinkpad. I've had excellent results with IBM
> Thinkpads and never had one fail. Now they are all Lenovo, of course; 
> and
> I found one from a private party on Craigslist for $200 that looks
> absolutely brand new, like it has never been used, and with 8-Gb RAM.
> 
> Lots of them on ebay for as little as $99 with no OS and priced all 
> over
> the map up to $500 and even more.
> 
> Now just need to flush the 500-gig hard drive and install Linux Mint 
> and
> I should be good to go for the next 5 years or longer.
> 
> 
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------
> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss

-- 
Nathan England (480) 559 - 9681
nengland@nmecs.com
http://www.nmecs.com/
Web Developer, PHP Programmer, Lamp Administration, and
Information Security Specialist



---------------------------------------------------
PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss