you bought it an SSD instead of a fan? On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Nathan England wrote: > > > 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 > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen